The Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe and The Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe Each Win PC Home 2002 Silver Award

Acronis, the technological leader in system software development, today announces two if its leading products, Acronis OS Selector 5.0 and Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe, have both been honored with PC Home 2002 Silver Awards.

The PC Home Silver Awards are given to publishers and their products that exhibit superior performance, utility, and ease-of-use for PC Home's readers. The awards are presented on a case-by-case basis with reviews in PC Home magazine each month.

"To win not one, but two awards for Acronis products is very gratifying for us", said Maxim Tsypliaev, President of Acronis. "From our white papers to our engineering philosophy, we stress quality, innovation, and end-user experience. These are the things that set apart Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe and Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe — and PC Home has recognized us for that."

The PC Home 2002 Silver Award for Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe represents the secondaward of merit for the multi boot and partition management application, the first being a 2001 Editor's Choice Award presented by Linux Journal.

PC Home Magazine, with a circulation of 20,000 issues, is published 13-times a year by Paragon Publishing, United Kingdom. Paragon Publishing is one of Europe's fastest growing and dynamic consumer publishers specializing in the videogames, computers, Internet, digital and home entertainment markets. Our mission to excite, enthuse and inform our markets, is supported by a dynamic and ambitious team creating innovative, entertaining and accessible magazines and Web sites for all levels of users. We focus on markets where early adopters are influential in setting trends and where readers' enthusiasm and commitment is strong.

Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe gives users the power to safely resize, copy, and/or move hard disk partitions while easily installing and booting multiple operating systems on a single PC. Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe combines everything available in higher priced competing products and adds unique features none of these other competing products have. Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe fully supports Windows XP and both the (Red Hat default) Linux Ext3 and (SuSE) ReiserFS file system. Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe can manage up to 100 operating systems including all DOS and Windows versions, all Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Solaris, UNIXWARE, BeOS, and more. Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe is also as much as six times faster than its competition.

Supported operating systems: Windows XP, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR 2, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Linux ALL distributions, FreeBSD, Solaris, SCO, UNIX, UNIXWARE, OS/2, BeOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, QNX, B-TRON, and others.

Supported file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux SWAP, and Linux ReiserFS.

Acronis Migrate Easy will help you comprehensively install a new hard disk on your PC in a fast and easy way by transferring partitions and data from the old disk to new one in minutes while keeping all operating systems and applications fully functional.

Usually re-installing all applications on a new hard disk and moving all the documents, address books, mail, settings and preferences takes many hours or even days of hard work. With Acronis Migrate Easy it takes only minutes to select the hard disk installation parameters and commence transfer of your data. Acronis Migrate Easy takes care of every bit and byte you have on an old or existing hard disk. Safe and secure, nothing will be lost.

In either automatic or manual upgrade mode, Acronis Migrate Easy allows quick operation with just a few mouse clicks, or dig in with full manual control over the transfer process. You can also resize or move the transferred partitions to match new hard drive size; create new partitions; make the new disk bootable or a data storage device; and keep or safely delete all data from the old hard disk.

Acronis Migrate Easy supports all operating systems for PC including: all DOS, Windows 3.1 + DOS, Windows 95 / 98 / ME, Windows NT / 2000 / XP, Linux (any distribution), FreeBSD, Solaris, SCO UNIX, UNIXWARE, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and many others.