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Microsoft Streets & Trips (2010)

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

163 reviews
Sales Rank: 43

Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 4.3 x 3.6

MPN: B17-00492
Model: B17-00492
UPC: 882224897679
EAN: 0882224897679
ASIN: B002LLR87E

Release Date: August 31, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 makes trip planning easy with street level maps of the U.S. and Canada
•	Send your route to your GPS device; connect a GPS device for spoken directions
•	Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family
•	Save time by setting your map to always start at a particular location
•	Choose specific roads to use on your trip just by dragging and dropping the route

Product Features

Includes updated street level maps for U.S. and Canada
New--Send your route to your GPS device
Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave
New--Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family
Get free construction updates to avoid potential delays
New--Save time by setting your map to always start at a particular location
Personalize your maps with comments, phone numbers and notes for planned stops
New--Easily delete or hide groups of pushpins
Find special savings in restaurants, hotels and events with Entertainment Online trial offer
Improved--Choose specific roads to use on your trip just by dragging and dropping the route
Include multiple destinations and stops to refuel
Improved--Comes with more than 1.7 million points of interest including post offices, pharmacies and more
GPS Ready--connect your GPS device to your laptop to get spoken directions including street names, automatic re-routing and large on-screen directions
Improved--Streets & Trips now includes more than 300 unique pushpin images to choose from

Microsoft Streets & Trips makes trip planning easy.
Accurate maps and route-planning options help you get nearly anywhere in the United States and Canada. Customizable features let you plot your course down to the last detail. Once you've planned your trip, you can send your route to your GPS device for navigation on the go.

A Great GPS Companion
Streets & Trips is a great companion to GPS devices. Use Streets & Trips to plan the perfect trip, including multiple stops, points-of-interest, and start and stop times. Then export the route to a personal navigation device for easy navigation along the way.

No DVD Drive? No Problem!
If your computer doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, you may still purchase Streets & Trips. Find out more at www.microsoft.com/activate today.

Calculate your mileage, trip costs and arrival time before you leave.
This is a great planning tool, especially for comparing different routes you're considering.

More than 1.7 million ideas for stops along the way!
Looking for an Italian restaurant in Des Moines? A hotel in Vancouver? Streets & Trips comes with detailed information on over 1.7 million locations--ATMs, hotels, restaurants, post offices, pharmacies, gas stations and other points of interest. No Internet connection required.

Comparison to online mapping
Streets & Trips delivers a mapping solution that offers much more than online mapping solutions. It doesn't require an Internet connection to use, and there are no distracting ads. You also get options to customize your trips by start and stop times, driving speeds, or even road types.

Access street-level maps and personalized directions.
Updated street-level maps and turn-by-turn directions make it easy to stay on track. You can also add personal notes to your maps. With addresses, phone numbers and other notes alongside your planned stops, you'll have all the information you need in one handy place.

Spoken street names and automatic re-routing.
With a GPS receiver, Street & Trips can provide spoken directions and street names as you drive. It can also put you back on track if you make a wrong turn!

Customer Reviews:

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Took Streets & Trips to Texas and Back and Liked it Fine January 28, 2010
Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I recently got both Microsoft's MapPoint and Streets and Trips to review. I am a Mac guy and these are PC programs. However, since Vesta and I were getting ready to go on the road, Texas our destination, I was eager to try the programs out. Fortunately Vesta understands Windows. and got a Dell Laptop for a song and a dance and a bit of money from her sister last month. However, that alone wasn't going to do the trick, because the programs came without a GPS unit. We opted for a Bluetooth GPS receiver and in no time she got it mated with her laptop. Then she installed both programs.

We've never had a GPS system in the car, it's a 1989 good as new Dodge Radar, so knowing where we were all the time was going to be fun. I knew would be. And it was. We found the cheapest gas along the way and that alone would have paid for S & T had we actually paid money for it. MapPoint, on the other hand is a bit pricy.

Although MapPoint does everything S & T does, S & T seems to be like MapPoint Lite. The good news is, if you're like me, you probably don't need all the features you can get in MapPoint. S & T can calculate your mileage, you expenses, ETA, tell you of a zillion points of interest and give you turn by turn directions. MapPoint goes a lot further. You can load data into it and analyze sales trends for specific areas. You can make maps based on census or other data and export them to Word or other programs. You can visualize your data in numerous ways and you can use the data to plan business trips.

Okay, I didn't do any of that data stuff with MapPoint. Truth, we used S & T almost exclusively. We did occasionally use MapPoint because we had it and I needed to write this review. It is for sure a five star product, if you have a use for it. If you don't, then S & T will certainly suffice. If you have a newer car with an onboard GPS you might not need either. I've never used one of those, so I don't know if they have access to all the points of interest you get in these two fine Microsoft programs. I don't know if onboard GPS can show you to the cheap gas or if you can print out discount coupons or if you can visualize your maps the way you can in these programs. I know having Vesta's big laptop screen was a plus for my old eyes. All in all, I've giving both these programs five stars.

5 out of 5 stars

Streets and Trips 2010 November 16, 2009
Sally Sutherland
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have tried Map Quest and others before, but I always go back to Streets and Trips. On Map Quest for instance, you only get a small map of what you want, but on Streets and Trips, you get the whole map. You put in a start address and a town, or address, and it shows you both spots on the map and you just click the button asking for directions and it pulls up the directions for you to take. It even has an update button so you can get updates right on your computer and then you can ask for it to tell you where you will have road construction, so that you can try to avoid these locations or plan another route to be able to bypass them all together.
Thanks, I will buy this product again.

5 out of 5 stars

The best software out there September 9, 2009
Jason Blalock
18 out of 25 found this review helpful

I have a Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine running a 2.8Ghz Core 2 Extreme (OC@3.2), 4 GB ram, and 2x200 7200rpm striped drives and 2 x 512MB 8800 GTX in SLI. This software runs with no problems whatsoever. I previously ran it on Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit) as well and there is no difference between the two whatsoever performance wise. As for the comment regarding 64-bit not being supported, that's not accurate as the program simply runs through the built-in emulation layer of Vista called Windows-on-Windows that all other 32-bit software runs in if it is programmed to utilize it. Just because their client may have a programmed cap for memory allocations of up to 2GB has nothing to do with if it will run or not. I could almost bet you that many people who use 64-bit (including the previous reviewer) probably don't even have a single application on their computers that can even utilize the advantages of a 64-bit architecture.

For anyone who is shopping for powerful mapping software, this one is very likely the best that you are going to see in this price range. Compared to PCMiller/Copilot, this software costs about 6 times less, and has MORE features, as well as an upgrade path versus the "Oh well, pay us 300.00 and you get screwed when we release a new version" attitude displayed by the other companies. The nicest thing I can think of about it is that IT WORKS. Many of the other products out there simply don't or are inaccurate badly enough that it can cost you time and money. Streets & Trips has never lead me wrong and I run it all the time and average over 900 miles daily covering much of the US.

This program is the standard to live up to, not the typical copycat product. Now, since it will interface with a GPS, it's the complete solution. Other options such as "CoPilot" will NOT RUN on a 64-bit machine at all. The closest I came to getting it to was to run VMWare and run 32-bit XP through a virtual machine (which actually worked, no thanks to the tech support).

Stop thinking about it and buy it already. ;)

5 out of 5 stars

Microsoft trip software October 22, 2009
Rodney G. Getsy (Livingston, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Microsoft has improved the user interface making it easier to use. Easy to import way points such as bridges under 13', and campgrounds. Easy to route avoid. And great ability to locate addresses when connected to the internet.

5 out of 5 stars

Still don't get why everyone hates this! January 21, 2010
jessica connaher (Wisconsin, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Does nobody writing these reviews have children? I love this product-slightly less now that I have a mac and have to purchase the program and updates for my sister's pc and drive an hour every time i want to use it, but still! I plan a trip 1300 miles from my home. I choose the type of roads I want, input my car's fuel consumption, and plan rest stops every three hours. Which are mapped. As are fuel stops, and even lunch and dinner stops, (since I can input my starting time every morning and the trip has a running time estimate along with mileage). directions right to them-I can even pick the restaurant and gas station. AND I can say "I only want to be on the road for eight and a half hours a day". So S&T factors in my average driving speed, construction delays, and time of rest stops, and finds the nearest town with a hotel, motel, B&B, whatever I choose. Then they give me the hotel's phone number and after I've booked, the hotel is added as a stop and my trip resumes at whatever time I choose the next day. With rush hour and construction figured in. All done and printed out before I even leave my house. I get that this might be a little too rigid of a plan for some, but when you're traveling with small children this program is a lifesaver. I don't want to drive for eight hours and then try to find a hotel. or guess at the mid-point, book the hotel from home, then drive for twelve hours because I guessed wrong. Same goes for getting lost trying to find a rest stop or cool side attraction. I love my mac, but I hope I will always have someone in my life who will let me use their pc to plan my yearly vacations. IMHO, Streets & Trips is the ONLY thing Microsoft does better than Apple. And they do it beautifully!

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