Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008

Microsoft Streets & Trips 2008 gives you accurate driving directions to just about anywhere in the United States and Canada. It gets you where you?re going quickly, easily, and without all the guesswork. This comprehensive trip planning software makes route planning a snap.

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Maps
Really disappointed in this software. I moved into a new home development two years ago and it is still not contained in the 2008 version of Microsoft Maps. To bad……I really like the original software, but don't bother to spent the money to upgrade

5 Stars Excellent Software
I have been using Streets and Trips 2002 for the past five years and have been completely satisfied with it. It has come in handy on numerous occassions during trips (as I never travel without my laptop) and when trying to find locations mentioned in commercials or addresses of friends and family. We travel cross-country frequently. This new version is like icing on an already perfect cake. It adds wonderful new flavors and toys, especially the GPS tool. I haven't had much opportunity to use this new version yet, but after a quick trial run to find my address buried in the back woods, I'm thrilled.

4 Stars Streets and Trips
I give the years product a 4. Its a good map program to have on your desk top or Lap top PC. Due to the competition with GPS units, I was hoping for better updated mapping. A few of the same Flaws from 2007 were there. A good example is new housing developments. Early 2007 maps (ie. Map quest and goggle earth) didn't show any updated street information of my address. By the end of 2007 these web sites had been updated. Microsoft's 2008 version still does not show my area or the new shopping centers. If you don't have a GPS and need detailed mapping, then Microsoft Streets and trips would be a good buy.

4 Stars Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008
Very good product. I use this software to plan trips

especially on my motorcycle. It gives me a good

feel for the trip and has the latest construction updates

to help in the planing. Especially with todays fuel prices

it's a great tool for the most direct route. Additionally,

it can be installed on a lap top computer and plugged into a GPS

unit for in the vehicle navigation.

4 Stars Very good PC map program, great for rally routes
With GPS a common product now, plus Mapquest and Google Maps pretty easy to use, these programs are not as important as they once were, but they do have a place, especially in planning a trip. Once you get used to it, it does a great job of laying out a route. Yes, you can get from point A to B with GPS but this makes side trips much easier. I use it mostly for rally routes. Nothing like it for something like that. Find it very accurate, which is important for rallies. I got the version with the gps device for rally work but given the size of a PC, I don't use it for anything else. That is what my Garmin is for.

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