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| Microsoft AutoRoute 2007 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £40.93
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New (9) from £40.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 65
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: 1296358
Model: 689-00901
UPC: 882224256193
EAN: 0882224256193
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 confused August 25, 2008
the messages that are written are very mixed and dont give an accurate picture of the product
Fine for very basic mapping but that's about all July 23, 2008
I have version 2005 and the London To Heysham bug is in that as well. It's ridiculous. Autoroute was great in the late 90s when there was only basic GPS and you coulod hook it up to your laptop......now it's a bit of a pointless excercise with the sub 100 GPS units available. The BIGGEST reason NOT to buy is the fact Microsoft sought to buy out all the small guys and then do NOTHING with it, no updates or anything. That kind of neglect will ensure I'll never buy Autoroute again in any form even if it were neccesary!
 I only wanted it for one thing - and it does it well July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read the other reviews I was worried.
Very worried.
But I only wanted autoroute for one thing
I am on the road a lot, and I can import from an excel spreadsheet the details of my clients and they appear on the map screen! So I can plan journeys to reduce maileage and with fuel prices as high as they are that soon saves the cost of the software. I have nothing to add on any other comment, but this feature alone makes it a must have.
Sue Microsoft! October 17, 2007
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Absolutely unreliable. As such clearly it could only be produced by Microsoft and they expect you to put up your hard earned money!
Avoid at ANY price.
Not really useful as an upgrade December 31, 2006
51 out of 58 found this review helpful
This was a Christmas present as I'd recently passed my driving and was borrowing a car over the festive season. Someone thought that it may be of use to aid in my planning and navigation for the long haul journies which I'd planned. The interface is very similar to recent previous versions making it easy to use and there are some nice touches to some features like printing out different styles of routes or directions. You can also use a GPS connected to a laptop for mobile users although it could only find COM ports on my laptop and not my USB GPS device so I never got to play with that feature. I got the impression though that you can use Autoroute 2007 in the same way as TomTom as it gives you the option to install some speech software. There are some other minor points and it is not as up to date as the version 2007 would have you believe.
For a start, some pubs in my home town which have since changed hands over two years ago are listed by their previous names where as others which have been established for years are not even shown. So if you were planning on using pubs as an established form of land mark then forget it. Also, not all service stations are listed for the motorways which made planning stops on routes a little awkward. In reality, I found that practically all junctions of the M1 have services other than the 4 shown in Autoroute 2007. Directions refer to slips roads of motorways as ramps and one particular route gave me the wrong exit off a roundabout at a junction. When exporting the maps to Pocket Streets, I found that they were incompatible with Pocket Streets on my PDA and I could not export them as a previous version.
This all said, the product is quite good as an overview tool and to be fair there is a lot of information to cram in so you would expect some anomalies. However, there is no update feature and no updates on Microsoft's web :(
Given that this was a gift, I'm not really complaining or being ungrateful for recieving it. Having used it though, I couldn't justify the expense of buying it myself.
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