UpdateStar - Simplify your software life

What is UpdateStar?

Berlin-based UpdateStar is the leading provider of software information and important software services for PC users.
We deliver essential software products and services to home users as well as corporate users and partners already in more than 90 countries.

UpdateStar Premium's vertical approach allows users to access and acquire all their software, updates and downloads as well as licenses from one place. Our state-of-the-art UpdateStar Online Backup service delivers unlimited online storage space for home user as well as business data backups. More than 130,000 accounts are currently managed on our server facilities. IDC estimates revenue for our emerging online backup market to reach $715 million by 2011. Overall our products make the life of every computer user and business easier and more secure.

Trusted by 2.4 million active users of our products and services each month [August 2010], our products allow users to securely backup their data on our server facilities, receive updates for all of their software and maintain their computers. UpdateStar currently provides users with program update information for 4.5 million installations - daily. UpdateStar is a standard for providing focused software information as well as providing complete PC software setups with the UpdateStar Packs to easily equip a PC with popular software. The UpdateStar software search engine offers our users access to our database with more than 1,273,000 software products.

Why UpdateStar?

We put users first and offer world-class products combined with world-class support. Press and customers alike give our services excellent reviews and UpdateStar products and services are trusted by more than 2 million users each month already. Feel free to test-drive our products. Plus the UpdateStar portal acts as your free software source for all the software you are looking for. Plus our users get a free UpdateStar membership and can create free accounts. No more fear of losing a license. This way our users can get easy access to all of their UpdateStar licenses at any time. Get your own free account here.

Who is working on UpdateStar?

At UpdateStar, we are proud of our products and we are we always seek to offer best-of-breed products and services. The management team consists of members with a proven track and years of experience in the software industry developing must-have software products for the Windows platform.

Mission

The UpdateStar project aims to ease every computer user's software life. UpdateStar provides an outstanding free service every computer user can benefit from. Our global user community helps to build and complete the UpdateStar database by providing up to date data to the UpdateStar database. The positive reactions we receive every day show us just how much users world-wide love the idea of UpdateStar - easing everyone's software life.

UpdateStar not only provides the users with valuable information, but also offers optimal licensing options for shareware and commercial products. As a further advantage, UpdateStar delivers focused software news and coupons for more than 4,000 products. You not only receive licensing options through UpdateStar, but purchases made through UpdateStar also allow us to keep providing UpdateStar as a free service for the millions of users worldwide. We additionally provide our professional clients with various businesses.

How our users support UpdateStar

Crowdsourcing works and the UpdateStar program database successfully relies on the users. Users of UpdateStar voluntarily submit update information for software products to the benefit of all other users. Programs and program information are constantly anonymously added to the UpdateStar software database making it already the most complete software database available - always up-to-date.

Secure Crowdsourcing

After reviewing submitted program and update information, UpdateStar provides newly added information via update alerts in the UpdateStar client and the software search engine. UpdateStar's secure crowdsourcing approach allows our users to keep their PC's software updated to minimize their PC's security vulnerability level.

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