Thayer Birding Software TBS1887148477 Birds of Nebraska
The software won't install
This looks like a slick package, and I was excited to see it run, but it won't install on my home system; it gets 99% of the way through the installation (including having you type in a license code), then gives an obscure message about a font file and dies.  Contacting the company, I was told that this problem, \\"Started showing up on some systems when the latest Windows XP service pack was installed.\\"  One problem with that theory - I run Windows 2000.  At any rate, they offer no fix for the problem except to wait for them to release the next version of the software, sometime in August, and hope it fixes the problem.  As an IT networking professional of over 20 years, I've dealt with a lot of software, a lot of it buggy, but come on folks - this isn't rocket science!  I'm keeping the package and hoping for a corrected version soon, but this is pretty irritating.  Oh - and they require that you register it with their web site before it will run, just as a little added irritation.