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Review: Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 software
Written on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by That's Camping
Article Categories: Equipment

One of our long time visitors, Carl, sent us his review of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 software:

Don’t Waste Your Money

We purchased Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 with GPS to use on a Coast to Coast trip and want to warn others about it. The 120+ dollars was a TOTAL WASTE. Microsoft products and support which has been going downhill, has finally hit bottom.

We were planning to use it to plot one to two days in advance where we would be and where to stay. Needless to stay, the laptop spent most of the trip in the case. My $250.00 MIO GPS which was purchased early on into the trip, ran circles around it.

For instance, I was sitting in a campground in California looking for another campground to go to. Streets & Trips showed only three campgrounds for the whole state of CA. There are around three hundred in that state at least. Later I was able to get it to show more campgrounds (works somewhat on Cape Cod not in CA??). The only problem, according to the software, was the campgrounds in Orange CA were south of Dana Point. To New Englanders that would be the equivalent of looking for a campground in Dover NH and the program showing them around Boston MA. How happy would you be to drive all distance for nothing?

Trying to get help at Microsoft is a joke. All they want you to do is use the web pages for the USELESS FAQS. One FAQ sent me to the people who wrote the mapping software. If I remember correctly, they wanted $50 for me to get the corrected data. Microsoft later said I needed to be online to get it to work. Sure, we carry a 3500 mile phone line/Cable behind us. When I tried while parked a WIFI spot it still would not work online, kept getting “page not found errors from Microsoft.com. Found out later you have to use Explorer 7.0, not Netscape etc.

What I did do (go there yourself if you don’t believe me) was go to the user group pages for 2007 road and trip. There was page after page of people with the same problems all getting the same answer (that is No answer) from Microsoft.

Thanks Carl for sharing your review of this software. It is too bad that you had such a negative experience with the software, but I am sure it will help other campers considering to purchase

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  1. I did like it alot. I didn’t compare to others, but some kind of navigation system is very handy. A computer one can be taken out of the car so you can plan in a comfortable place and the keyboard makes navigation around the interface much easier.

    Posted by Nelson Guirado on 03/29/07

  2. Thanks for checking in, Nelson!

    I admit we have absolutely no GPS system or software. I guess for now, we like our good ole DeLorme map books.

    Someday, ya never know!

    Posted by That's Camping in the Northeast on 03/29/07

  3. Does anyone have a software program for trip planning that comes highly recommended?

    Posted by Michael C on 04/11/07

  4. Delorme has software, but I don’t know if it is good or bad

    http://www.delorme.com/

    I would check http://www.epinions and http://www.amazon.com for reviews.

    Posted by That's Camping in the Northeast on 04/11/07
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