Product Description

Travel with complete confidence!



Plan it, customize it, drive it. Every trip is a good one with Microsoft Streets& Trips 2008. This comprehensive trip planning software makes route planninga snap, around town or anywhere across the U.S. and Canada. Microsoft Streets& Trips gets you where you?re going quickly, easily, and without all theguesswork.  

Your trip...your way!

• Customizable trip-planning options allow you to plan routes, scenic detours, and fuel stops.
• Reroute any time you wish, instantly, without going online.
• Optimize your trip by calculating mileage, time, and expenses in advance.
• Store or print your travel plans, or share them online or though e-mail.
• Find everything you'll need along the way, from landmarks to airports to golf courses.
• Use full screen map view for easier map viewing on the go.
• Import contacts from Microsoft Office Outlook into your maps.

Microsoft Streets & Trips 2008 gives you accurate driving directions tojust about anywhere in the United States and Canada, with more trip-planningfeatures than major online mapping Web sites.  Instantly find more than 1.6million points of interest such as hotels, restaurants, ATMs, museums,campgrounds, and more without the need to be online. Use Live Search to findadditional local business listings when you're online, then take selectedlocations with you on the road.  Get detailed door-to-door directionsanywhere along millions of miles of routable roads, streets, and highways.

Planning your trips just got easier and more fun!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1252 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: B17-00389
• Released on: 2007-08-20
• Platforms: Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .36 pounds

Features

• Over 1.6 million points of interest such as ATMs, hotels, landmarks, and more
• Enhanced Keyword search helps you quickly find nearby business and POIs immediately
• Customizable trip planning options allow you to plan stops, scenic detours, and more
• Navigation Mode lets you estimate drive time before you leave your house
• Offers GPS capability (GPS receiver sold separately)

Amazon.com
You know where you want to go, and Microsoft Streets & Trips 2008 can help you get there. This best-selling travel and map software has been enhanced with several new features that take all the guesswork out of traveling, letting you focus on the sites, instead of the directions. With more than 1.6 million points of interest to choose from, and with updated maps and the most extensive trip planning features you'll find anywhere, Streets & Trips will help you plan your trip, your way.

Streets & Trips 2008 offers enhanced GPS support. Just plug in a GPS receiver (sold separately) to your laptop, and you have full GPS capability.

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What's New in 2008
Microsoft Streets & Trips 2008 offers the latest available maps of nearly 6 million miles of routable roads and highways throughout the United States and Canada. While you're driving, verbal turn-by-turn directions let you concentrate on the road while the software guides you. Customizable trip planning features allow you to plan multiple stops, find nearby places to visit, calculate drive time, and more.

Updated features let you identify one-way streets at a glance, and a robust keyword search lets you quickly find business and other points of interest quickly by entering in single search terms. Do you need a cup of coffee now? Simply type in the word "coffee" and Streets & Maps offers you the nearest coffee houses. Best of all, the search results automatically refresh as you continue to drive, so you will always have the most relevant information at your fingertips.

Online or off, Streets & Trips gives you the latest maps that give you the most accurate, detailed door to door directions at your fingertips. You can find current business listings while you're online and then take them with you. In a hurry? You can optimize your travel efficiencies by calculating mileage, time, and expenses in advance, even avoiding delays due to construction by downloading free updates from the Web. An updated navigation mode makes it easier than ever to know where you are, so that you can estimate drive time quickly and precisely, and enhanced customizable trip planning options will help you to plan stops, scenic detours, and fuel stops. You can even add multiple destinations; and quickly alter your route at a moment's notice.

Streets & Trips also features enhanced support for your GPS receiver that gives you a new perspective map view that can give you a road view like the one you would see through your windshield, to get a road view like the one you would see through your windshield. And the automatic re-routing feature gets you back on track, even when you miss a turn. (GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later, which is included in Streets & Trips with GPS Locator.

As Easy-to-Use as Typing
If you can type, you can take full advantage of the wealth of features Streets & Trips has to offer. To create a route and generate directions, it can't be any easier. You simply type in your starting and ending locations and click on "Get Directions." And voíla! Your trips can include side trips and segments, and you can instruct the software to customize your route by telling it what types of roads you want to travel, how quickly you want to get there, and the general area where you want to stop to gas up. Streets & Trips will create your itinerary, down to the precise gas station. Overall you'll have access to over 1.6 million local POIs such as hotels, restaurants, gas stations and even ATMs. And while you're driving, the software can give you verbal turn-by-turn directions that let you concentrate on the road instead of the directions.

Customer Reviews

Stick with the 2007 version
Unless you really need the updated maps, I would not upgrade from Streets and Trips 2007.
* The 2008 version is the first one with a product key that needs to be registered. I assume this means I can no longer sell or give away the old version when I buy the new one. So I won't be upgrading every year anymore.
* After I did the install, it corrupted a dll that Money 2007 uses. I had to reinstall Money to get it working again.

Streets and Trips Tripped
I've used S&T for many years, updating every year or two as useful new features were added. I updated to the 2008 version to get updated maps. After a lengthy install process, I found that MS had "updated" my street address out of existence. I live along a major road in Essex County in a substantial NJ Township with a 20K+ population and my street address and those of my neighbors had always shown up in prior versions of S&T. S&T 2008 not only elminated my street address but all street addresses on nearby major roads (i.e. those appearing in yellow). Other street addresses are shown. I did not have the time and inclination to see if this problem exists for street addresses in other areas of NJ or in other states. This fault in mapping street addresses makes this program untrustworthy and, essentially, useless.

When I called MS Technical support to see if I'd missed an option that would enable it to show street addresses on major roads, I was told that there was no such option and that another company provided the mapping technology and that I could provide map feedback about the error. He offered a refund but I will be able to return it to the place I bought it.

At this point, I've removed this new software garbage from my machine and reinstalled the old version. Now that Google Earth and other free mapping software exists and good GPS devices are readily available at decent prices, the need to pay for updated versions of S&T, especially dismally executed updates like this inexcusible 2008 version, makes no sense.

OK software, very poor support
I have had versions of MS streets and trips since they began years ago. I try to upgrade every year or two. I use it on my desktop and two laptops. When I recently upgraded, I was told that was not a problem. When I received the software, and tried to install it, I would not allow me to install it the third time. I called support and was promised they would find a way and get back to me in an hour. Four hours later, I called again, and was told they could not get back to me and had not found how I could install again. I was referred to a supervisor who again told me he would help and get back to me in an hour or two. That was a week ago. I have made repeated calls and e-mails to this person who never gets back to me. I wish I had gone with there competitors this time around. I can no longer recommend Streets and Trips over the compitition.