Here are some hot news just before 2000 ends.. Nero 5.5 comes this Feb2001 and it will have a lot exciting new features:

OEM and Retail version:
* WaveEditor
* Cover Designer
* CD-Extra pre-mastering
* VCD/SVCD menu generation
* full MPEG1 encoder for VCD creation (great quality!!)
* NeroAPI for integration of CD-Recording into user's applications
* Audio Plug-In interface

Retail version only:
* Virus checking before burning (using DrWeb technology)
* mounting of Nero Images to virtual CD-ROM drives

Also Ahead plans to ship InCD v2.0 end of January 2001. The first version will only be the English language version and one month after they plan to release the multilanguage version (English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, German).