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Zeta 1.5 shipping!

As of today Magnussoft has started shipping the first Zeta 1.5 cd's to their customers. Although 1.5 is almost a month delayed the developers did add lot's of features in the last phase of development. These include an Abiword port, drivers for PCL6 and Radeon, and others. Also added is the new application AudioTagger.

With 1.5 being shipped, Magnussoft also introduces 'MZSP' or Magnussoft Zeta Service Packs. MZSP's will be freely available in the future as downloads. To install MZSP's you will need to have your Zeta version activated, and they will only install on the most recent version. Alongside the MZSP's there is also an update application planned so you can keep your system up to date automatically.

After lot's of waiting I'm happy to finally see some real good news from Magnussoft, but I still hope that there will be some compromise for the former yT costumers better than sending in CD's by post. The news about the planned service-packs and the updater does show that Magnussoft is also thinking about these matters and I hope they will be a bit more transparent in their actions that yT was. I did understand that by German law it is not allowed to view any customer data from bankrupt companies, and that this is part of the reason Magnussoft can't simply provide former yT buyer with updates, nor have any way of checking if you ever legally owned Zeta just by your name and address. Anyway Zeta 1.5 should bring lot's of new customers if Magnussoft wants to continue development, and let's hope it does!

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