History
UpdateStar was founded by Michael Ganss, Frank Alperstaedt, and Olaf Kehrer in 2007, and is currently based in Berlin. The software search engine website itself, however, did not launch until July 2008. The company is funded by the founders. The current version of the site was released in July 2008. This included new software search capabilities with results based on user submitted information for more than 259,000 programs, a new professional services business section, and an UpdateStar freeware client section.
UpdateStar freeware has grown in popularity with about 50,000 users in 2007 and about 550,000 users in July 2008.
UpdateStar 4, released in March 2009 introduced an enhanced recognition algorithm and a registry cleaner, which removes remnants of uninstalled software. Updates appear almost on a daily basis for a software setup with 60 to 80 programs on a typical PC making it nearly impossible for a PC user to keep up. UpdateStar tries to make the user aware of these updates. It is available as freeware as well as the commercial Premium Edition with additional security advice for program, a cleaner for system maintenance and more.
UpdateStar provides the user with information about software updates available for software on their computer. This includes major releases provided by UpdateStar Freeware Edition as well as minor version upgrades and patches included with the Premium Edition. Many updates are published because of security reasons and newly included features. Either way software updates should be considered important or even critical in case of updates made available by the publishers for security reasons. UpdateStar Premium additionally offers security advice allowing for an identification of important software updates.
UpdateStar Premium also includes a tool to clean the Windows Registry from superfluous and faulty software entries which are often the result of incompletely uninstalled software.
2 million users already profit from the reliable and secure UpdateStar service per month (December 2009) and receive updates for their PCs software. UpdateStar currently provides users with program update information for 4.5 million installations - daily.
UpdateStar released version 5 on Oct 19, 2009 introducing improved version recognition, improved Windows 7 support, new language support for Korean and Lithuanian, and improved translations of Russian, Hungarian, and Romanian.
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