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 - Wont ActivatePurchased this product new and it will not activate. I called the phone activation number and they cant activate it. The product is going to be returned and if the store where I purchased it refuses I will contest the credit card bill. Keep in mind thay you are purchasing a licence and if microsoft refuses to give use of the product your money must be refunded. Rating: - Dangerous product, the worst I have ever seenFirst off it takes you about a half an hour to get the program to even work. once you set it up and test it. If you change the USB port you installed the GPS on it switches to a different com port and the program has to be re-calibrated. Starting the GPS tracking function is buried 3 menus deep and is not easy to find when you want it to start NOW! Mine used to give audible directions till one day it just quit. And who wants to glance over at their computer every 10 minutes to see if your going the right direction. IT's not loud enough, so you cant hear the audible commands anyway unless you wear head phones or plug into the AUX of your cars stereo. Its slow re-routing if you get lost. And you will get lost. It doesn't tell you which lane to be in and it gives you goofy instructions, like "keep on left and take ramp right." So do I take the ramp or stay right? There are too many bells and whistles to the point where it's useless. Like most Microsoft products its just plain annoying. If you use this plan on spending half of your time getting lost, getting the GPS to even start, and once it does start you have to keep your laptop from falling asleep or your GPS will stop working and you have to reconfigure it all over again and wait another 10 minutes. Plus trying to hear what the voices are telling you. You may actually end up where you wanted to be. Just expect to arrive late, in a bad mood, and in serious need of a stiff drink. This isnt La Casa Del Rey....Its La Casa Del PIZZA!!! Ive never felt compelled to write a product review before, but this program is so horrible, consumers out there really need to know. Rating:  - MS Streets 2008I have always liked the MS streets and trips software and I get the new version every year. This year, they made it a lot harder to register it and I wish they would just include the registration code so I can use it on my PC and laptop, not single use only. Other then that, it's just what I need. Rating:  - Not all that...The software, for someone who does not use GPS, is just a modest improvement over Streets 2004, which has been very reliable but was starting to be very out-of-date. The new version also is a little quirky (I am terrible about reading directions, and it is not always intuitive) so that I've had difficult printing out exactly what I wanted (map+directions, map with no directions, directions with no map, etc). The CD purchased from Amazon was damaged, and could not be installed, but this turned out to be less of a problem than I feared. Who would think that Microsoft would have good customer services. When I called to ask for help installing the software, I spent less than five minutes on hold. The customer service agent transferred me to a tech, who in less than three minutes diagnosed the problem as a damaged disk, and transferred me again to someone who made arrangements to sent me a new disk. It took about eight days to arrive, longer than ideal, but it still all worked out. If you don't have Streets and Trips, it is a nice program to have. If you do have Streets and Trips, I am not sure you need the new one. Rating: - Bluetooth gps issueWhen using this software with a bluetooth gps receiver I'm getting a screen to actual position lag time of greater than 15 seconds - which just about makes this product worthless. I've duplicated this issue on 2 different laptops. My bluetooth gps device works just fine with Delorme Street Atlas 2007 - so I have to put the fault with Streets and Trips 2008. Customer support for S&T 2008 was inane.
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