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Nero Is Mutating...

Woof	Date: November 11, 2004 @ 4:21 AM Well... a couple of months ago, I heard that Roxio wasn't going to be working on any more versions of Easy CD Creator, or whatever it's called now... they threw in the towel, and mentioned that they're going to want to focus on other projects in the future... So that left Nero as the prime candidate for burning CD's and DVD's in Windows... and I've been using it for the last year or so faithfully, and it's done a fine job. However on my last check for updates, it's not Nero 6 Ultra anymore... now it's Nero 6 "Reloaded", and, just like Roxio, they're attempting to turn this wonderful program into a Windows version of Apple's iLife... a tool that does a lot of things, but none of 'em particularly well... Thay've branched off a lot more into photography and slide show tools (which strike me as really cheap versions of other programs that deal with those areas much more effectively), and the interface has been redesigned, and now looks like it's melting or something, and for me at least, it was harder to figure out... So for now, at least, I'm sticking with v. 6.3.1.25... the last "good" release I was able to archive... and don't plan to move up anytime soon... Ulead's DVD Picture Show, and a slideshow maker called InAlbum simply blow the "new" Nero's features out of the water... and since there don't appear to be any actual improvements in the burning engine, well... it just makes this new release bloatware for me. Just thought I'd mention it...
wet1	Date: November 12, 2004 @ 1:23 PM Thanks for the info, I will be sure to avoid it. This sounds like an attempt to do the same thing micro$uck$ attempts to do. When I saw that trumped up effort to use a firewall in sp2 I promptly deleted the mess. Who in their right minds wants a crippled firewall when there are others out there for free that actually give you some control instead of depending on a "feel good". Years ago I saw what became of third party disc compression, memory management, defrag, recovery tools, utilities, and the like after Micro$uck$ got ahold of them and added it to their little pile of tricks called an OS. They paled beside the real McCoys and what the original companies did. Not sure paled gives the right impression strong enough. So now we got someone else attempting the same thing, ok, not for me...
FitzInStereo	Date: March 11, 2005 @ 11:05 PM So you're saying that Microsoft actually made an attempt to manage memory, not just waste it away? Surely, you jest.
FitzInStereo	Date: March 11, 2005 @ 11:07 PM sigh I'm still a diehard PC guy...
Woof	Date: March 12, 2005 @ 3:57 AM As an OS, and an OS alone, M$ has done fairly well since the release of Win2k, IMHO... as long as you've got plenty of third party tools to handle jobs that an OS doesn't need to be responsible for... Y'know, It took me a couple of hours to learn how to burn CD's using the "Improved" Windows Media Player (that comes bundled with XP, using the Roxio technology), even though I'd been using Roxio and Nero for years! Now I just use WMP to play music and video... it seems ridiculous to go to all that effort, to make it do more than that!
AGenePunckbowee	Date: March 15, 2005 @ 1:30 PM After reading these, I'm glad I've never updated my Nero software. Mine came with the cd-burner I was using. For me it has always worked great, and the Nero WAV editor is the easiest and best I've used.