the technology was issued in January 2000. March 2000: Adaptec, Inc., acquires Wild File for approximately $29 million. April 2001: Adaptec creates spin-off company, Roxio, Inc., which retains the GoBack product. May 2001: Roxio GoBack 3 Deluxe is released, this time also supporting the NTFS filesystem, which by now was being used more widely since the release of Windows XP. August 2001: Symantec Corp. announces Norton SystemWorks 2002 which includes GoBack 3 Personal Edition by Roxio. April 2003: Roxio sells GoBack to Symantec for $13 million. September 2004: Norton GoBack 4.0 is released by Symantec and included in Norton SystemWorks 2005. November 2007: Symantec releases a Vista-compatible version of Norton SystemWorks for 2008 (11.0) which no longer contains GoBack, but the Premier Edition of SystemWorks now includes Norton Save & Restore 2.0. March 2009: As per Symantec, Norton GoBack has been replaced by Norton Ghost 14 (Norton Ghost however is missing some functions that Norton Goback had). Awards May 2000: Adaptec GoBack 2.1 receives PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. June 2003: GoBack 3 Deluxe receives PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. June 2004: Norton GoBack 3.0 receives PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. August 2005: Norton GoBack 4.0 receives PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. Competing products Windows SteadyState (discontinued) Deep Freeze See also Data recovery References Windows security software Utilities for Windows Windows-only software Gen Digital software Roxio software