CNCMM,
Do you have a solid reason to say the next version for lathe? I have heard junk promises for years on this so I am curious to know. The people I know with ZW don't even want to talk about it and they sure aren't indicating any possibilities here.
I would say that judging by the press releases from ZW that the majority of the attempts at development are now in China as according to them the big majority of the developers are now Chinese. Who knows as talking to tech support here in Florida gets you an answer of basically "I wish I could tell you but I am out of the loop and the guys in China tell us nothing". Go ahead and call them with a question like "when will they have lathe?" and amuse yourselves.