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1.0 stars
"Asleep at the enhancement department."
Pros: Opportunity and Task Windows
Cons: Lost Act for Palm OS
Summary: I was disappointed with the Act 2006 upgrade. Act for Palm OS is gone and they have replaced it with a hoaky product called ActLink for Palm OS. The Act Link to Palm OS is a static connection that splits the contact and calendar information and drops it into the canned Palm OS programs. Gone are the opportunities. Gone is the ability to schedule a meeting through the contact screen. The new program sends all of the events entered on the Palm to your record in Act. To put it in the correct record you need to delete the one event and then reenter it in the correct contact's screen. Double work.
The upgrade of all of the reports proved to be a problem since many of the data mappings have changed with the new version. Finally, if you had Act on an older laptop, get ready to upgrade. They require at least 512M of RAM and without it, you won't be able to get the free tech support. Overall, I wish I would have waited until all of the bugs and enhancements are fixed and reinstalled.
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Using Act! 6.0 for a couple of years, and it works just fine. I thought, reading all the hype, 8.0 (now by Sage) would be even better.
WRONG!
This is the worst product I have ever tried to use. It takes 4 minutes to boot, responds slowly to every command, and aside from a pretty face, as far as I can see is a total waste of time and money.
I am running Windows XP Pro on a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with 768 MB of Ram. I tried to upgrade to the latest release (8.0.1) thinking it might fix things. After downloading it, I tried to install it and was politely told that I needed to free up 150 MB on my hard drive to install it. (Ummm...it is a 120 GB hard drive with over 100 GB available.)
Glad this was a trial version. I can't wait to uninstall it. What a colossal waste of time. -
ACT! 2005 and ACT! 2006 are terrible products and should never have been released. They have ruined a good product. I have reverted back to ACT! 6.0 and am shopping for an alternative.
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