What Happened to Nero - Why the King of the Burner Disappeared

What happened to Nero Burning ROM? It shipped with almost every CD and DVD burner on earth, passed 300 million copies, and then quietly vanished from our PCs. No bankruptcy, no scandal. This is the story of how the king of burning software was priced to death, from a $30,000 CD recorder to a free download with a browser toolbar. In this video: how Ahead Software from Karlsbad, Germany beat Roxio and Easy CD Creator, why Nero 7 got called bloatware, what Windows XP, Windows 7 and ImgBurn did to paid burning software, the 2010 lawsuit against MPEG LA, and why Nero AG still exists today. What was the last version of Nero you used? 5.5, 6, 7? Tell me in the comments. SOURCES Interview with Jim Corbett, Ahead Software (CDFreaks/Myce, Jan 13, 2003): https://myce.wiki/article/interview-ahead-... Nero AG company history and financial figures: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_AG Nero Burning ROM version history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Burning... "Ahead wird zu Nero" (heise, 2004): https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Ah... Nero reaches 200 million users (press release, Oct 27, 2005): https://hexus.net/qadwe Nero Linux 3 press release, 240 million units (May 2007): https://www.widescreenreview.com/news_deta... Nero Multimedia Suite 10 press release (Apr 12, 2010): https://imaging-resource.com/NEWS/12711033... Nero 9 Free review (PCWorld): https://www.pcworld.com/article/486104/ner... Nero 9 Free and the Ask toolbar (TechPP, Jul 31, 2009): https://techpp.com/2009/07/31/download-ner... Free alternatives to Nero (How-To Geek): https://www.howtogeek.com/35484/how-to-get... Acer to bundle Nero 9 Essentials (StorageNewsletter, Jul 2009): https://www.storagenewsletter.com/?p=103112 Toshiba OEM deal (StorageNewsletter): https://storagenewsletter.com/?p=107144 Nero files antitrust case against MPEG LA (OSnews, May 2010): https://www.osnews.com/story/23346/Nero_Fi... MPEG LA royalties and case dismissal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA Notebook makers consider dropping optical drives (PCR, Apr 2012): https://pcr-online.biz/2012/04/24/could-no... Nero Platinum Suite 2026: https://www.steganos.com/en/products/partn... User reactions quoted from AnandTech, VideoHelp, TechEnclave, Bigbruin, Dell Community and Vegas Creative Software forums (2001–2009). #Nero #NeroBurningROM #TechHistory