{"id":210,"date":"2006-07-04T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/210"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:09:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:09:58","slug":"announcing-visualbcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/announcing-visualbcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing EasyBCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"colorbox-210\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/EasyBCD2.png\" alt=\"VisualBCD\" align=\"left\"\/>Following our &#8220;decomissioning&#8221; of work on VistaBootPRO by a series of under-handed tactics by PROnetworks culminating in a Cease &amp; Desist on even using VistaBootPRO, we contacted NeoSmart Technologies&#8217; legal advisors and asked thim if it would be OK to continue work on VistaBootPRO under another name.<\/p>\n<p>Their response was slightly disheartening, but after a day of non-stop work, <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" rel=\"follow\">EasyBCD 1.1<\/a> has been released &#8211; a visual bootloader modification utility written from scratch and without referring to or copying from the VistaBootPRO source code. 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