I’m an amateur when it comes to digital artwork. I had fun experimenting with this program now that I have a new computer. I’m not a talented artist by any stretch of the imagination, but I was able to create little works of art. I was able to intuitively start on a project, but mastering Painter 12, will not be easy for a novice. There are a wealth of tools in this program to meet the needs of real artists.

I’m a bit disappointed with Corel Digital Studio 2010. It does allow the user to edit photos and videos and organize media. The problem is that it does not excel at any of these tasks. When there are viable free alternatives, the Corel Digital Studio seems somewhat irrelevant. I installed the program on a Windows 7 machine and it went smoothly. The program installs a little Windows widget for easy access to your media.

I was completely shocked at the improvement of this year’s edition over last year’s. I expected slow and clunky software, but instead found more streamlined, user friendly software. Setting up Norton 360 3.0 was simple. The new version deleted the old version and installed itself. Installation took about 15 minutes, making me reboot several times. After it was up and running, it performed well. It immediately found a Trojan without my having performed an initial scan.

Family Tree Maker 2011 is the first family tree maker I have used. I am a computer geek, but found this software wasn’t very intuitive. The Ancestry website (which you get 3 months of access to with the software) contains a vast amount of information. It was fascinating to comb through their records and see census data going back to the 1800s and also seeing the WWI draft papers of my great-grandfathers.

Virus protection is important to me. I have used a variety of virus protection programs throughout the years. I haven’t noticed a huge difference between any of the virus protection software I have used. I have used Norton products before and Norton Security meets the standards of past iterations. Norton Security offers lots of different options, all of which can be turned on or off so that it fits the user’s needs.

They make you log in all the time now to do anything with your local data and account. I don’t use anything online related to this and do not want to and never would. I deeply resent that they require you to login to your account all the time to update, see your data, etc. If there were any other serious product available, they’d be out of business.

Don’t buy it here. It will not keep or include your activation code in your digital locker.

In my view, this product is now useless UNLESS your computer already has Office 2010 already installed and you can merely enter the code you are buying with this product. If you need to download Office 2010, good luck. I am very computer savvy and found Microsoft now only supports 2013 downloads. I found other places where one could obtain links to download 2010 and used on that was supposedly relatively reputable.

Used to be good. They ruined a great product. Worst, though, is they renewed on my card which I DID NOT authorize, and now I’m paying for another year when I didn’t even use it the first year. VERY HARD to cancel. Avoid avoid avoid on every level.

Buyer Beware: not only produces non bootable copy, but also makes original non bootable. This is a very dangerous product.