Launched in September 2007, Berlin-based UpdateStar is the leading provider of software information for PC users. We aim at delivering essential software products to home users as well as corporate users. Our products make the life of every computer user easier and more secure. The idea behind the UpdateStar project is to ease the PC users' software life. UpdateStar's vertical approach to how users access and acquire all their software provides them with software information, updates, and downloads as well as licenses - all from one place: UpdateStar.

2.4 million users already use UpdateStar's products and services each month [February 2010] and for example receive updates for their PCs software, increasing their security and productivity. 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 309,000 software products.
Because we put users first, offer world-class products combined with world-class support. UpdateStar products and services are trusted by more than 2 million users each month. 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.

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.

Crowdsourcing works and the UpdateStar program database successfully relies on the users. Users of UpdateStar voluntarily submit update information for the more than 259,000 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.
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.

The UpdateStar team consists of members with years of experience and who are passionate about developing must-have software products for the Windows platform.

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