Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012 Ultimate Edition

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L. Miller (Columbia, MO United States) –

  

I’ve used the Britannica software encyclopedia since 1998, and my most recent edition was 2008 . . . decided four years was a good time period for an update.

It seems like the software developers at Britannica are stuck–there really is nothing new about the arrangement, use or visual design of this program. While I’m glad to have updated articles and content, it would be nice to see some creativity and updating at work in the program design.

I had no problems installing or running the program.

However, there is apparently a problem on Britannica’s end with product registration. The registration process simply leads to an error page. And the program keeps prompting for registration; it is also not possible to reach the “update center” until registration is completed, so that’s essentially not accessible. Britannica technical support did respond relatively quickly that there are problems with the registration site. It would have been helpful to have this information on the technical support page.

Also, I noticed that the maps in the “Atlas” part of this program are copyrighted 1998. Seriously, people? Update the maps, already.

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