In case you missed it, I figured that was rather much implicit in my
post. The Activation nonsense added to an already bottom of the barrel
product was the merely the final insult!! And for those who got sucked
into buying MS&T 2008, the paranoid Activation kludge left a large
percentage of them with a useless piece of crap that would not
Activate!!    

At one time, a long, long time ago Microsoft Streets and Trips used to
be about the only game in town; and I have been updating annually
since 2001, until 2007. The 2007 version was **SO** bad that I deleted
it, and reinstalled 2006, the last reasonably tolerable version to
emanated from MS.

In 2007 they deleted a whole lot of POIs (Points of Interest) to a
mere useless handfull; notwithstanding that 2006 already had only a
pathetic few hundred thousand POIs compared to the 6+ million POIs
contained on the cheapest of Garmin GPS units!

In 2008, MS merely reissued another unbelievably crappy piece of
software, with the new necessary Activation crap. Crap that for many
suckers didn't even work!! For most of us, the Final Insult!!

It was only after travelling with those with an elcheapo
bottom-of-the-line Garmin unit, that I was confronted with the fact
that MS Streets and Trips is a total piece of sh.t in comparison!