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Microsoft AutoRoute 2005 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £37.99
You Save: £12.00 (24%)
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Rating:  21 reviews
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 689-00360
UPC: 805529807631
EAN: 0805529807631
ASIN: B0002WV7TE
Release Date: September 3, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Don't upgrade to this from previous editions! November 15, 2004
179 out of 179 found this review helpful
Thought my 2003 edition was getting a bit out of date - Microsoft's own Website trumpets 2005 has "high quality up-to-date mapping" so went ahead and wasted 35.00 on something that I immediately noticed omits the M6 Toll Road and the M4/A34 interchange upgrade, two of the most significant road schemes in the UK and both opened long before 2005!! If I could be bothered to look, I'm sure there would be plenty of other such examples too. Complained to Microsoft and their reply (as with other reviewer) was that the mapping companies charge them too much money therefore it would make the product prohibitively expensive. Come on Microsoft - you are pushing the boundaries of Trades Descriptions when you describe something as "up-to-date" when you admit yourselves that critical elements (like the MAPS!!) haven't in fact been updated at all.
 So where's the M6 Toll Motorway? September 5, 2004
C. B. Newman (Kirkcudbrightshire)
178 out of 182 found this review helpful
The M6 Toll Motorway was fully opened on 13 December 2003. But did anyone tell Microsoft AutoRoute? Apparently not. Yet again AutoRoute is at least a year behind other publications and route planners. At a price of almost 45 one would think that the 2005 edition would have this important route included.
AutoRoute 2005 still contains some old minor errors - for example in the Western Isles (Eilean Siar) the Harris-Berneray and Eriskay-Barra car ferry routes both show wrong destinations. AutoRoute were advised of that (together with several other errors) in 2003, but obviously they consider these errors to minor to warrant alteration.
The M77 extension (south-east from Glasgow towards Kilmarnock) opens in Spring 2005. With AutoRoute's track record (since Microsoft took it over) I assume that I will have to wait until their 2007 edition for that to be included.
Fine, but what's the point of releasing a new version? September 10, 2004
166 out of 171 found this review helpful
Autoroute is the market leader for good reason. It is simply the best route calculation software available on the PC platform. There's a host of extras you'll probably never use and in this verion the inegration with GPS receivers seems to have been improved. However, for anyone with provious versions - BEWARE. I have the 2002 version and I can see very little difference - even the M6 Toll is not on this release. So, if you need this kind of application, then look no further. If you have a previous version, I'd hold off for a year or two.
Microsoft Autoroute 2005 October 29, 2004
L. Mcneill (Minard, Argyll, Scotland.)
105 out of 113 found this review helpful
This seems to be an excellent programme if you happen to be travelling in Scotland, Wales or England. However, the UK does include Northern Ireland. The road details in both Autoroute 2005 and 2004 have a lot less detail than the 2003 version. MS tell me that this is because the Ordanance Survey department in N.I. were looking for more money than previously. With the money that MS make with Autoroute I find this unbelieveable. If you live in Ireland the 2004/5 versions are practically useless.
 A real disappointment September 27, 2004
Osmo Saarelma (Helsinki, Finland)
95 out of 98 found this review helpful
Although Autoroute 2005 has parts of Europe in more detail than the previous versions a real surprise is that it has dropped all the less detailed information away completely! E.g. in Finland and all Europe east from Vienna I am better off with the 2001 version.
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