Hi All,

Happy New Year! And no, we're not three weeks late, this is the Chinese New Year! 
So, Happy Chinese New Year! Xin Nián Kuài Lè (新年 快乐)

It has been a pleasure helping you reach your goals this whole time, and we are grateful to have good customers, partners, resellers, contributors, friends who make our work satisfying and enjoyable. We look forward to work with you and contributing to your success in this prosperous year. May on the year of the Dragon your businesses grow in leaps and bounds!

PS.
Hóng Bao Ná Lái (紅包拿來) -- May I have the red envelope, please :)

Dear Valued Customer,

Recently, Adcore ApS acquired the assets of Smartlaunch A/S and is now proud to offer continued service of the Smartlaunch software to you. Regrettably, Smartlaunch A/S closed down, ceased all operations and will not perform work or provide services under any of its old contracts.  We, at Adcore, apologise for any inconvenience this causes. Unfortunately, the situation allowed for no other option.   

Adcore is proud to offer Smartlaunch customers continued service going forward
The original founders of Smartlaunch software, Michael and Kasper, have had no involvement with the company for the last few years. When we heard about the situation with Smartlaunch we decided to buy out the software and establish a new company. Our plan is to improve operations, customer service, and continue to service Smartlaunch customers with powerful software solutions in the years to come.  

New terms of service to Smartlaunch’s former customers 
In order to support the large existing customer base we must implement a new subscription model for all of Smartlaunch’s former customers who bought the software before the 1^st of January 2011:

The fee structure for the new subscription model can be viewed here and, of course, we urge you to contact us with any questions.
http://www.smartlaunch.com/pricing 

The new subscription model offers the benefits of:

• The highest level of FREE customer support
• Automatic upgrade to new versions of the Smartlaunch software when released

How can I continue using Smartlaunch? 
You must sign up and pay before the January 31, 2012.

For customers who bought Smartlaunch after January 1, 2011.
These customers will be able to continue with their existing license until the 1^st of April 2012. After this date these customers can convert to the subscription model as well.

Discount for existing customers
Existing Smartlaunch customers will have received further information via email about how to claim their discount.
If you have not yet received this email, please just submit a ticket here in the support system and request the discount code by mentioning your account email address.

We sincerely hope that you will continue to choose Smartlaunch going forward and we are committed to improve the software and service to make this a value adding tool for your business.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely, 

The Smartlaunch Team

Hi All,

Great news from Smartlaunch, we just released Smartlaunch 4.5!

Get it now and make sure you have all of our best features:

• Improved compatibility with Windows 7
• Speed up client start-up
  
• Diskless Client
• Windows Desktop Interface
• Interactive Skins
• Improved Security
• Smartlaunch Open API
• Magnetic Card Reader Support
• Remote Administrator Access
• Improved Knowledgebase Articles, Video Screencasts
• Improvement to existing feature e.g. License Management, Personal User Files, Turning Computer Remotely
• New FLASH skin : Very soon!

Please check these steps below to upgrade your current Smartlaunch to Smartlaunch 4.5:

1. Backup your Database and Server.INF file. These 2 files are very important, we recommend you to backup your current database and Server.INF before you upgrade to Smartlaunch 4.5
2. Make sure you have your backup database and INF file and copy those 2 files to certain safe location on your drive
   
3. From your Smartlaunch Server, please choose "Updates" tab and click on "Check For Update" button to get the latest update of Smartlaunch 4.5

Please also check some of KB articles that related with some features in Smartlaunch 4.5:

• How to use the diskless client feature
• What is Windows Interface skin
• Smartlaunch API Documentation
  
• How to use a magnetic card reader for login user
• How to configure magnetic card reader in Smartlaunch

If you have any questions about this new release please send a ticket to our support system here.

Have a nice day!