It doesn't have Strat zoom, though you can zoom out a "little" and then you can zoom in like most games. But the game wouldn't work out well with strat zoom, the amount of units on the field is much much lower than conventional RTS games.
It's got a cleaner interface than SC2, in my opinion.
Things can shoot pretty far, much further than SC. Some things across the screen (which you will hate), artillery and snipers in particular. There's also cover, which is pretty damn important.
Not a hyper active community and mostly made of whiners. But helpful if you know who is good and bad.
You can watch some recent gameplay action with some good players here: http://www.dow2live.com/
Sometimes it's laggy, if it is use on of their library things.
