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Microsoft MapPoint 2009 to be released on July 21, 2008.

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Marvin Hlavac
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I just did a quick search for "mappoint 2009", and it returned 5 pages of results So it's not going to be MapPoint 2008 - it's going to be MapPoint 2009 !!!

That's very good news for people who have been waiting very long time to update the current version of MapPoint 2006. It also is very good news for people who use Streets & Trips 2008 or AutoRoute 2007, because MapPoint 2009 may have new features which we may later see in Streets & Trips 2009 and AutoRoute 2009.

According to Amazon.com, MS MapPoint 2009 will start selling on July 21, 2008.
toyfountain
Senior Member
A search for Streets Trips 2009 gets results, but nothing was found for Autoroute 2009.
Marvin Hlavac
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toyfountain, great catch on the Streets & Trips 2009! I checked several of the retailers, including Amazon, but no one has an ETA, yet.

Usually new AutoRoute version appears on Google Products search much later, because the search engine is, as far as I know, only for the USA retailers. Not too many stores carry MS AutoRoute on this side of the ocean. Usually Amazon in the UK advertises AR first.
taoyue
Senior Member
Wasn't there speculation that Autoroute was getting dropped?

The same was feared for Mappoint because the expected 2-year update hadn't come. But actually, Mappoint has been released on anywhere from a 2-4 year schedule.

The lack of a 2008 update for Autoroute is more significant, because Autoroute is an annual product like S&T.
Marvin Hlavac
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taoyue, yes, you are absolutely correct. It will be very interesting to see if Microsoft AutoRoute 2009 comes out. If MS MapPoint 2009 Europe comes out, it may give us some hope we may also see MS AutoRoute 2009 later in the year.

Only the time will tell (since no one from MSFT wants to jump in here to tell us ).
Marvin Hlavac
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Here's an update on the release date for Microsoft MapPoint 2009: The product will be available on September 1, 2008 (not on July 23, 2008). Microsoft Streets and Trips 2009 will release about a month after that.
Marvin Hlavac
Laptop GPS World
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Now we at least have a screenshot of the upcoming Microsoft MapPoint 2009 to look at - still the product is unavailable. It should become available in September, the same month when very likely even Streets & Trips 2009 comes to stores.
DJEvergreen
Member
Are you sure it's not out already? A few websites and they report they have it in stock.

taoyue
Senior Member
Amazon is not selling Mappoint 2009, even as a preorder. The link is an ANTonline listing on Amazon.

Newegg is usually reliable, however. I'm puzzled.
DJEvergreen
Member
Actually, Amazon is selling it. For some reason it's not the first one that comes up though.
taoyue
Senior Member
That's funny. On the other hand, Amazon takes such a large cut of third-party sales that they're better off if someone else sells it, than if they sold it themselves.

Note, however, that "Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks" means they don't have any copies in stock. You often see this with college textbooks -- it'll say "1 copy left, ships immediately" then it'll go up to "2 to 3 weeks" once someone snaps up that copy.
Marvin Hlavac
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I emailed Eric Frost last night regarding MapPoint 2009 availability in stores and on MSDN. He has a better chance of knowing what is going on with MapPoint, since he runs two websites dedicated to MapPoint: The Magazine for MapPoint and MapPoint Forums, and he also sells MapPoint himself.

Here's his reply:

Quote:
I heard they are making two versions of the DVD, one is retail that requires activation or else it reverts to a 60-day trial, the other is a volume licensing / ISV-R DVD that does not... (I sell through the ISV-R program).

They finalized the retail version first and it is already "out in the wild", probably whoever got their order in to the distributors first got theirs first.

I heard the vol. licensing DVD is just being finished now and will be will sent out to guys like us in the next three or four weeks..

I'm guessing that it is the vol. licensing DVD that will also be put on MSDN, but I'm not sure..
In a day or two I should be able to take Microsoft MapPoint 2009 with GPS for a drive. I will then post screenshots and some info.
ericwfrost
MapPoint Forums
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac



That's a fake screenshot.. Did you do that yourself? You can tell the 2009 is not angled properly. When I get home I'll take a box shot. I bought a copy from Beach Audio, don't ask
Marvin Hlavac
Laptop GPS World
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Now that you say so, yes, it doesn't look completely right. They would have made a better job of it, if they had just cut the number 6, and then flipped it on it's head . If I recall correctly, Microsoft has always created a completely new box design for new MapPoint version, so it indeed would be unusual to see the same box for MapPoint 2009 as we saw for MapPoint 2006 three years ago. I'm looking forward to your photo .
Marvin Hlavac
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A little bit of more info about MapPoint 2009 release dates:

Quote:
MapPoint 2009 release dates: North American Version - September 1, 2008; European Version - January 1, 2009. You may be able to purchase MapPoint 2009 in a retail store prior to these dates, but you can purchase them as a part of your Microsoft Enterprise Agreement on or after these dates.
The above quote is from the article titled Overcoming Pushpin Limitations in MapPoint 2009 by Chris Pendleton.
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