Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The program itself is great. The immersion works well, and it is entertaining to puzzle through new words via their scenarios. Voice recognition is top notch as well. It's a great learning tool. Unfortunately.... it is saddled with the most onerous copy protection I have yet encountered. It is so dreadful that it drops my rec straight from 5 star to 2 star. Basically you can only install it twice. Hard drive dies? That counts as one. Upgrade your OS? Counts as one. There is a "de-activate" function which supposedly returns one of the licenses, but you can only do that if you remember beforehand, or there is not a technical difficulty that prevents it. The one time I was in a position to try the "de-activate" feature it did not return the license. After you run out of your two installs you then have to call their technical support for each and every install after. If you are a tech type who upgrades systems and OSes frequently this literally results in HOURS of extra overhead spent on the line with indian tech support to get your licenses reinstated. Hope you kept your proof of purchase all that time as well, without it you now have a $200 yellow coaster.