I’ve become interested in going to Germany and although I know that English is spoken there, I’d like to be able to go off the beaten path and immerse myself in the culture. I’d also like to be able to understand the conversations of people around me. This is why I really was interested in Rosetta Stone versus a quick and dirty travel language CD. This product allows you to customize it to your goals (read, write, listen, speak) through a very simple startup screen (which can be setup for different users) and then it automatically builds the lessons for you.

I became very anti-Norton over the past few years. It seemed like their products got slower and slower with more crashes as each year passed. Norton 360 and Norton 360 v2 were horrible buying mistakes. I begrudgingly gave Norton Internet Security 2009 a try on a three year old Windows XP SP 3 system which I’d been cycling various free and paid for security products through over the past few years and I have been absolutely impressed with Norton’s speed and usability.

This does exactly what it says. I think to fully enjoy this product that you would want to have it hooked up as media device on you home theater, which can be done either directly or by having a TV or other device that supports home DNLA so that you can stream from your computer to your TV. For just casual video file viewing on your PC, it provides a lot of cool features that I’m realizing I probably won’t take advantage of very often and I can’t really see needing this program.

First of all, unlike other reviewers, this product installed fine on Windows 7 for me. I admittedly took awhile to write this review, which is affecting my rating of it. Why? Because after playing with it for a weekend, I never opened it again. What that says to me is that it wasn’t fun or compelling enough to me to keep me coming back. That said, I did have a fairly positive experience with it and thought it did a good job of allowing me to capture my ancestry.

I’ll admit, I am mainly a Windows guy, but I do have a Mac and need to use office for work. So, using office on the Mac seemed to be a bit of a necessity to have the easiest collaboration between my computers and with colleagues. I was a bit hesitant to put any Microsoft software on my Mac, but I went ahead with it and I am glad that I did.

Great product

I have come to rely on Norton Security and will purchase again.

A needed software at a good price

I have been a long time user of Norton products. Performance improvements over the Norton 360.

Helps to organize my finances. I especially like the reconciliation function, which helps take the frustration out of balancing my checkbook.