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Software and Games : Software Categories : Education & Reference : Brands : Encarta
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Includes a full suite of homework tools that help students gethomework done right the first time. 96J-00147
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STUDENT WITH ENCARTA REF LIB V2007 EN
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The Encarta 2007 Reference Library is an encyclopedia reference software that brings you reliable and accessible content for your entire family. Thanks to its improved and simplified interface, perfect search engine and updated and enriched content, you can now access pertinent data on a particular topic and immerse yourself in the world of interactive learning.Microsoft Encarta 2007 Reference Library is a simplified interface that facilitates the access to encyclopedic content and helps you understand the world irrespective of your age. The theme welcome screens - History, Geography, Nature, Science and Technology, Languages, Arts and Philosophy, Art and Culture, Society - enable you to explore each knowledge domain.The Encarta content is regularly updated and thus it guarantees you sure, correct and updated information. With more than 42,000 articles, the Encarta 2007 Reference Library is further enriched to give you exhaustive and pertinent knowledge of the world and its richness.
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Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 is a powerful multimedia resourcewhere information is reliable and easy to find.
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Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2004 is the latest edition of Microsoft's pace-setting multimedia encyclopaedia. On a single CD-ROM you'll find nearly 35,000 articles, 10,000 photos and illustrations, nearly 2,000 sound and music clips, 36,000 map locations and more than 100 videos and animations.You'll start at Encarta's homepage where searching for a specific word or phrase brings up a list of suggestions in the left hand column. Click on one of these and the item itself appears in the main window. For example, searching for Vancouver Island returns a selection of articles on the subject itself, related articles on temperate rainforests and deforestation, as well as a key event list for Captain Cook (who visited the island in 1778). Cross-referencing is particularly strong, and as well as web-style links within the text that let you jump to other parts of the encyclopaedia, many articles list associated multimedia elements, such as sound and video clips, as well as links to those websites that have been assessed by Encarta's editors. (Where no Editor's Choices exist, you can easily do a general web search.) Articles can also be browsed in alphabetical order or by country and by clicking the Article Outline you can see the main headings of longer articles and jump straight to the sections that interest you. You can also browse maps, multimedia, statistics and around 18,000 websites in the same way.
Navigation is excellent, thanks to the familiar web browser-style controls for moving back and forth between recently viewed screens or going straight to the program's opening home page, and there's a useful drop-down 'history' menu so you can jump straight back to any of the last 29 pages you've visited. You can also build a list of 'favourites' which is useful if you're researching a subject over a longer period of time. Encarta makes it easy to copy both text and pictures into a word package, such as Microsoft Word and adds the relevant copyright notices automatically.
With its strong content, excellent multimedia and free updates, Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2004 is a good budget choice for general research and homework projects. --Rob Beattie
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Microsoft Encarta 2006 is the #1 best-selling encyclopedia brand*. It's a source you can trust for exploring a world of knowledge that's accurate, engaging, and up to date-with over 50,000 articles, tens of thousands of pictures and sound clips, videos, animations, games, maps, and more. Encarta brings you carefully reviewed, age-appropriate content that comes from sources you can count on, and regular updates ensure that information stays relevant and reliable. Whether your kids are asking why the sky is b...
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Wherever you want to go, someone has been there first. Desk-chair travellers and students alike will love Microsoft Encarta Interactive World Atlas 2001, which offers more detail than any other atlas yet available, plus multimedia tours of hundreds of locations world-wide. Almost 2 million place names include practically everybody's hometown; the dynamic maps let the user follow chains of association beyond simple geography. Traditionalists will approve of the flat maps outlining bioregions, political demarcations and other qualities--all printable in a wide array of styles.Local place-name spellings, informative articles and numbers galore pepper the software with features not found in other references, but the key to Encarta's success is its optimisation of multimedia. Using images, sounds and Web links to surround the user with information, the Interactive World Atlas is both dazzling and useful. Reports are easy to complete--use the researcher tool to gather, organise and export information to Microsoft Office tools. While you might not be able to discover new lands, you can certainly explore the world we know without ever leaving home. --Rob Lightner
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As its name suggests, the Encarta 2004 Premium Suite CD Edition is the top-end edition of Microsoft's pace-setting multimedia encyclopaedia. It includes over 130,000 articles, 24,000 photos and illustrations, more than 3,000 sound and music clips, 1.8 million map locations and more than 260 videos and animations.You'll start at Encarta's homepage where searching for a specific word or phrase brings up a list of suggestions in the left hand column. Click on one of these and the item itself appears in the main window. For example, searching for Vancouver Island returns a selection of articles on the subject itself, related articles on temperate rainforests, deforestation, lumberjacks and Sir Francis Drake, as well as a key event list for Captain Cook (who visited the island in 1778). Cross-referencing is particularly strong, and as well as web-style links within the text that let you jump to other parts of the encyclopaedia, many articles list associated multimedia elements, such as sound and video clips, as well as links to those websites that have been assessed by Encarta's editors. (Where no Editor's Choices exist, you can easily do a general web search.) Articles can also be browsed in alphabetical order or by country and by clicking the Article Outline you can see the main headings of longer articles and jump straight to the sections that interest you. You can also browse maps, multimedia, statistics and around 18,000 websites in the same way.
Navigation is excellent, thanks to the familiar web browser-style controls for moving back and forth between recently viewed screens or going straight to the program's opening homepage, and there's a useful drop-down 'history' menu so you can jump straight back to any of the last 29 pages you've visited. You can also build a list of 'favourites' which is useful if you're researching a subject over a longer period of time. Encarta makes it easy to copy both text and pictures into a word package, such as Microsoft Word and adds the relevant copyright notices automatically.
This edition improves on Encarta Encyclopedia Plus 2004 in a number of significant ways; by adding a world English dictionary and thesaurus, bilingual dictionaries (French, Spanish, German and Italian) thousands of quotations, a huge world atlas, a collection of study aids to help with homework, six 'virtual' aeroplane flights over different continents, and a selection of videos from the Discovery Channel; in all, it has around three times as much content.
With its extensive content and study aids, excellent multimedia and free updates, Encarta 2004 Premium Suite CD Edition sets the standard for multimedia encyclopaedias.
Note: all the features mentioned above are also available for Encarta Encyclopedia 2004 Premium Suite CD version with the exception of the six virtual flights and extra Discovery Channel videos. --Rob Beattie
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As its name suggests, the Encarta 2004 Premium Suite DVD Edition is the top-end edition of Microsoft's pace-setting multimedia encyclopaedia. Available on a single DVD it includes over 130,000 articles, 24,000 photos and illustrations, more than 3,000 sound and music clips, 1.8 million map locations and more than 260 videos and animations.You'll start at Encarta's homepage where searching for a specific word or phrase brings up a list of suggestions in the left hand column. Click on one of these and the item itself appears in the main window. For example, searching for Vancouver Island returns a selection of articles on the subject itself, related articles on temperate rainforests, deforestation, lumberjacks and Sir Francis Drake, as well as a key event list for Captain Cook (who visited the island in 1778). Cross-referencing is particularly strong, and as well as Web-style links within the text that let you jump to other parts of the encyclopaedia, many articles list associated multimedia elements, such as sound and video clips, as well as links to those websites that have been assessed by Encarta's editors. (Where no Editor's Choices exist, you can easily do a general Web search.) Articles can also be browsed in alphabetical order or by country and by clicking the Article Outline you can see the main headings of longer articles and jump straight to the sections that interest you. You can also browse maps, multimedia, statistics and around 18,000 websites in the same way.
Navigation is excellent, thanks to the familiar Web browser-style controls for moving back and forth between recently viewed screens or going straight to the program's opening homepage and there's a useful drop-down "history" menu so you can jump straight back to any of the last 29 pages you've visited. You can also build a list of "favourites", which is useful if you're researching a subject over a longer period of time. Encarta makes it easy to copy both text and pictures into a Word package, such as Microsoft Word and adds the relevant copyright notices automatically.
This edition improves on Encarta Encyclopedia Plus 2004 in a number of significant ways; by adding a world English dictionary and thesaurus, bilingual dictionaries (French, Spanish, German and Italian) thousands of quotations, a huge world atlas, a collection of study aids to help with homework, six "virtual" aeroplane flights over different continents, and a selection of videos from the Discovery Channel; in all, it has around three times as much content. --Robb Beattie
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Encarta Encyclopedia Plus 2004 is the mid-range edition of Microsoft's pace-setting multimedia encyclopaedia and offers considerably more content than Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2004. Firstly, there are three CD-ROMs and nearly 42,000 articles, 21,000 photos and illustrations, nearly 2,700 sound and music clips, 36,000 map locations and more than 230 videos and animations. If you have enough space (around 950MB) it's worth copying the contents of all three CDs to your hard disk to avoid having to swap discs all the time.You'll start at Encarta's home page where searching for a specific word or phrase brings up a list of suggestions in the left hand column. Click on one of these and the item itself appears in the main window. For example, searching for Vancouver Island returns a selection of articles on the subject itself, related articles on temperate rainforests, deforestation, lumberjacks and Sir Francis Drake, as well as a key event list for Captain Cook (who visited the island in 1778). Cross-referencing is particularly strong, and as well as web-style links within the text that let you jump to other parts of the encyclopaedia, many articles list associated multimedia elements like sound and video clips--as well as links to those web sites that have been assessed by Encarta's editors. (Where no Editor's Choices exist, you can easily do a general web search.) Articles can also be browsed in alphabetical order or by country and by clicking the Article Outline you can see the main headings of longer articles and jump straight to the sections that interest you. You can also browse maps, multimedia, statistics and around 18,000 websites in the same way.
Navigation is excellent, thanks to the familiar web browser-style controls for moving back and forth between recently viewed screens or going straight to the program's opening homepage and there's a useful drop-down 'history' menu so you can jump straight back to any of the last 29 pages you've visited. You can also build a list of 'favourites' which is useful if you're researching a subject over a longer period of time. Encarta makes it easy to copy both text and pictures into a word package, such as Microsoft Word and adds the relevant copyright notices automatically.
This edition improves on Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2004 in a number of significant ways; by adding seven 3-D and 30 2-D tours of famous cities, buildings, landmarks, archaeological sites, along with an excellent, searchable timeline which can also be split horizontally across the screen so you can, for example, see how art developed in Europe compared with Africa and the Middle East. You also get hundreds of articles from The Times newspapers.
With its strong content, excellent multimedia and free updates, Encarta Encyclopedia Plus 2004 is a good choice for general research and homework projects. --Rob Beattie
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If you have a hard time thinking of an encyclopedia as radically cool, you haven't spent time with Encarta yet. Yes, there are things to nitpick but the package overall, with its spectacular images and information, defines the genre.The 2000 edition boasts thousands of new articles, sidebars, photos, illustrations and animations. The robust search engine is made even more useful by its ability to process the kind of queries normal people (as opposed to trained librarians) are likely to enter. On the vast majority of occasions, we received interesting and legitimate results to our freeform queries.
There's a reason why Encarta is the bestseller that it is, and those that try it come away enriched by its knowledge base. The texts are strong and clear and the advantages of digital organization and multimedia help make it an authoritative journey into cultures, histories and natural worlds. --Acton Lane
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Encarta Reference Library 2002 (UK & Ireland edition) from Microsoft includes three titles: Encarta Encylopedia Deluxe, Dictionary and Thesaurus and an Interactive World Atlas. It also boasts two features: Encarta Researcher, which is a way to pull together topics, articles, clips and so on, and organise them by topic, and Encarta Online Deluxe, which gives access to the online "magazine"--note that this requires sign-up to Microsoft Passport.The interface itself is quite easy to get to grips with, although stylistically just a little bit boring. It is clean and uncluttered however, and because of this it moves quickly from screen to screen. The search is very good, and offers the functionality surfers are used to on the best search engines, such as word substitutions in case of misspelling, and lists of similar entries. The content of the three included packages are well integrated, offering results from all three, the atlas, dictionary and encylopedia, on each search. The Advanced Search functions like a filter, which lets the user search by type of entry, for example, Virtual Tour, animations, or charts and graphs, based on the search terms entered in the left-hand bar.
Those familiar with the Windows operating system will find navigating this software very easy. At the top is the usual toolbar, with File, Edit, View, Features, Tools, and so on. The easy reach of these menus make moving around the software simple, and stress-free, as well as quick to learn.
The content is good, although encyclopedias such as Britannica 2002 (DVD edition, Macintosh DVD) offer more authoritative content, and more comprehensive coverage, but titles such as that haven't yet managed to offer it up in quite in the excellent way that Encarta does.
The multimedia sections are fun, especially the 3-D virtual tours, in which the user can walk around ancient locations in the first-person, gaming style. Azuchi, castle of the ancient Japanese warlord and the Colosseum, are two of the seven available. Available in 2-D are field trips, monuments, famous landmarks, rainforests and so on. These are 360-degree panoramas, in which the user moves by clicking on where they want to go next. The last feature in this section is via map exploration, which is extensively populated with information and areas to explore.
There's a lot to enjoy about Encarta Reference Library, in terms of excellent usability, content and there's clearly been a great deal of thought given to how users actually want to access and use data. It's rather draining on computer systems however, and most people will find they have to use a lot of virtual memory to run it, but it remains as probably the best designed package of its kind on the market. --Alison Jardine
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When you have to know everything about everything, it's hard to beat Microsoft Encarta Reference Suite 2001. This DVD (also available in a six CD-ROM edition) will help you find and organise information from almost a quarter of a million articles, including comprehensive text, pictures, sounds (even pronunciations!) and video. More than just an encyclopaedia, the suite also contains time lines, the World English Dictionary, a thesaurus, book of quotations, style manual, 2001 almanac, the Encarta Interactive World Atlas. A tremendous amount of information; more impressive is that it is updated monthly with online files that add to or modify the data on disc.The Suite comes with a one-year subscription to Encarta Online Deluxe, which permits you to access up-to-date information from any computer in the world via the Internet. The powerful cross referencing afforded by hypertext and the Web makes online reference tools vastly more powerful than their paper-and-ink ancestors, and Encarta is clearly the most wide ranging and thorough available yet. The interface is child and adult-friendly, and the online help available makes learning incredibly easy--you can even ask natural-language questions and get strikingly germane references. It's powerful, it's portable, and it will tell you practically anything you need to know. What more can you ask? --Rob Lightner
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Encarta Reference Library 2002 (UK & Ireland edition) from Microsoft includes three titles: Encarta Encylopedia Deluxe, Dictionary and Thesaurus and an Interactive World Atlas. It also boasts two features: Encarta Researcher, which is a way to pull together topics, articles, clips and so on, and organise them by topic, and Encarta Online Deluxe, which gives access to the online "magazine"--note that this requires sign-up to Microsoft Passport.The interface itself is quite easy to get to grips with, although stylistically just a little bit boring. It is clean and uncluttered however, and because of this it moves quickly from screen to screen. The search is very good, and offers the functionality surfers are used to on the best search engines, such as word substitutions in case of misspelling, and lists of similar entries. The content of the three included packages are well integrated, offering results from all three, the atlas, dictionary and encylopedia, on each search. The Advanced Search functions like a filter, which lets the user search by type of entry, for example, Virtual Tour, animations, or charts and graphs, based on the search terms entered in the left-hand bar.
Those familiar with the Windows operating system will find navigating this software very easy. At the top is the usual toolbar, with File, Edit, View, Features, Tools, and so on. The easy reach of these menus make moving around the software simple, and stress-free, as well as quick to learn.
The content is good, although encyclopedias such as Britannica 2002 (DVD edition, Macintosh DVD) offer more authoritative content, and more comprehensive coverage, but titles such as that haven't yet managed to offer it up in quite in the excellent way that Encarta does.
The multimedia sections are fun, especially the 3-D virtual tours, in which the user can walk around ancient locations in the first-person, gaming style. Azuchi, castle of the ancient Japanese warlord and the Colosseum, are two of the seven available. Available in 2-D are field trips, monuments, famous landmarks, rainforests and so on. These are 360-degree panoramas, in which the user moves by clicking on where they want to go next. The last feature in this section is via map exploration, which is extensively populated with information and areas to explore.
There's a lot to enjoy about Encarta Reference Library, in terms of excellent usability, content and there's clearly been a great deal of thought given to how users actually want to access and use data. It's rather draining on computer systems however, and most people will find they have to use a lot of virtual memory to run it, but it remains as probably the best designed package of its kind on the market. --Alison Jardine