Hitting The Road For The Holidays? Drivers Turn To Microsoft Streets & Trips 2002 To Get Around (NAPSA)—It’s that time of year when your family is getting ready to pile into the car with an accumulation of maps to get you to your holiday destination. Maybe you review the maps, tattered from being squeezed into their glove compartments, and hope they are still accurate. Or you may go online but give up after the endless wait of a slow Internet connection. To avoid the frustrations of this year’s road trip, many consumers are turning to Microsoft Streets & Trips 2002, the No.1-selling travel product*, to find the best route to grandma’s house and know what's along the way. Streets & Trips also comes highly rated, having recently received PC Magazine’s highest rating, five out of five stars. With an estimated retail price** of $44.95 (U.S.) and $64.95 (CDN) with a $10 (U.S.), $15 (CDN) rebate, Streets & Trips 2002 proves an affordable gift idea too. Unlike online map services, Streets & Trips 2002 is loaded onto a home PC or laptop so you always have fast and easy access to up-to-date maps for every ZIP code in the United States and Canada. With Streets & Trips route planner, you can plan every detail of your trip, including the cost of gas and where to stay overnight. The software covers Many families find the information superhighway a goodfirst stop for happy holiday travel. more than 800,000 Points of Inter- est such as hotels and restaurants—even shopping malls— making it easy to find nearby places. In addition, Streets & Trips 2002 notifies you of road construction by downloading monthly road construction updates anytime you are connected to the Internet. To learn more about Streets & Trips 2002, visit http://www.micro soft.com/streets/. To read PC Magazine’s review of Streets & Trips 2002, go to http://www.pemag.com/article/0,2997,s%253D1470%2526a%2 53D12021,00.asp. * Source: NPD INTELECT Market Tracking, May 1998-September 2001. Based on total U.S. retail sales. ** Reseller prices may vary.
