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Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008
Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008

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From: Microsoft
Category: Software


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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 21 reviews
Sales Rank: 1864

Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.6

MPN: 96J-00139
Model: 96J-00139
UPC: 882224483728
EAN: 0882224483728
ASIN: B000Q6ZK3A

Release Date: July 6, 2007

Features:
  • A full set of study aids that help get homework done right the first time
  • Students can find trusted and up-to-date information quickly and easily using Encarta Premium 2008
  • Mathematical tools help students tackle math and science problems quickly and easily
  • Tools for completing foreign language assignments and a full-featured dictionary to help translate and conjugate
  • Includes more than 1,000 book summaries that help students understand some of the most commonly studied literary works

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 is a productivity suite of homework tools and trusted information designed to help students quickly and easily complete assignments in a variety of subjects and excel in school.



Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 gives students a full set of tools to help them succeed and get homework done right the first time.


Make research entertaining. Find information on just about any topic. Thousands of articles, photos, sound clips, and links to related information from trusted sources(2)-plus political, climatic, and topographical maps of the world-make discovering new information fun!


Equation Solver. Enter a problem into the Equation Solver and get step-by-step help on how to solve it. And with free online access to Hotmath(3), students can quickly find their textbook and select the problem they're solving. They'll instantly receive step-by-step guidance on how to solve the problem and what the correct answer should be.

Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 gives students a full set of tools to help them succeed and get homework done right the first time.

Full-featured graphing calculator
A full-featured graphing calculator that's simple to learn and use (similar to those costing more than $100!) helps visualize and solve math and science problems.

Equation Solver
Stuck on a math problem? Input your own problems into the Equation Solver and get a quick answer and step-by-step help on how to solve it.

Triangle Solver and Equation Library
Interact with a library of more than 100 equations and explore the relationships of triangles and their parts while viewing associated rules or graphs.

Learning Essentials
Get past the blank page. Learning Essentials helps students achieve better grades. Step-by-step writing tips and preformatted report and presentation templates give students a quick start in creating great-looking reports and presentations.

Foreign language help
A full-featured dictionary helps translate and conjugate verbs in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Learning Essentials also unlocks tools in Microsoft Office that are specially designed for foreign language study, providing templates and tools for completing assignments in Spanish, French, and German.

Book summaries
Need to know more about that literary story? Includes more than 1,000 book summaries that help students understand some of the most commonly studied literary works from middle school to college level.

The easy, all-in-one homework assistant that helps students excel in school.
Designed to be easy to use and simple to learn, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 makes learning fun. Whether it's a math, research, or foreign language assignment, students can find the right tools and information to get homework started quickly, get fast answers to academic questions, and complete assignments that can help earn higher grades.

Find trusted content when you need it.
Complete with Encarta Premium 2008, the #1 best-selling encyclopedia software brand(1), it's content you can trust. With editorially approved content, students can use Web Links to more than 25,000 Web sites, preselected by Encarta editors for relevant and age-appropriate research material(2). Through multimedia content, Encarta Premium 2008 provides engaging visual tools to help explore and discover historical events and places. It even includes Encarta Kids, a separate encyclopedia geared to young learners ages 7 to 12!

Get questions answered fast.
With time pressures to complete assignments, it's frustrating to get stuck without knowing where to go for answers. Whether they're stumped on a math, science, or a foreign language problem, students can quickly get the answers they need. They also get helpful ideas on how to solve problems, so the next time they're more likely to figure out the answer on their own!

Includes a full suite of homework tools to help students get homework done right the first time.



Foreign language tools help complete assignments in Spanish, French, German, and Italian


Quickly grasp the plots and themes of commonly studied books.

Encarta Premium 2008
Students can fi nd the information they're looking for-quickly and easily-with Encarta Premium 2008. With trusted content that's accurate and up-to-date, Encarta has been the #1 best-selling encyclopedia software brand for the past 8 years!(1) You'll be amazed at how much time your student will spend researching-compelled by the sights and sounds of one fascinating presentation after another.

Students can easily-and quickly-access trusted information provided by world experts. And since they can automatically download updates from the Encarta Web site, they'll have up-to-date and accurate reference software when they need it.(2)

Encarta Premium 2008 comes complete with a wide range of reference tools, including a dynamic atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, and language translation dictionaries.

Microsoft Math
Microsoft Math features a large collection of tools, tutorials, and instructions designed to help students learn mathematical concepts while quickly solving math problems. In an instant, they'll see how to solve problems-step by step! Works for many grade levels-from basic math, pre-algebra, algebra (including logarithms and exponents) to trigonometry!

Need advanced help? A full-featured graphing calculator that's simple to learn and use (similar to those costing more than $100!) helps visualize and solve math and science problems.

Triangle Solver and Equation Library. Interact with a library of more than 100 equations and explore the relationships of triangles and their parts while viewing associated rules or graphs.

Templates and Tutorials
Having trouble getting started on class projects? Sometimes the hardest part about completing a project is getting started. Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 includes the latest version of Learning Essentials.

Working with Microsoft Office Word, Office PowerPoint, and Office Excel (in either Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, or the 2007 Microsoft Office system, sold separately), Learning Essentials helps students achieve better grades. Step-by-step writing tips and preformatted report and presentation templates give students a quick start in creating great-looking reports and presentations.

Get past the blank page. Easy-to-use tools, templates, and tutorials help students get past formatting questions to the core learning in assignments. Learning Essentials includes tips and tutorials for managing projects and creating high-quality reports, presentations, science projects, and other assignments.

Foreign Language
A full-featured dictionary helps translate and conjugate verbs in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Learning Essentials also unlocks tools in Microsoft Office that are specially designed for foreign language study, providing templates and tools for completing assignments in Spanish, French, and German.

Literature
Need to know more about that literary story? Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 includes more than 1,000 book summaries that help students understand some of the most commonly studied literary works from middle school to college level.

Note:

1. The NPD Group/NPD Techworld, January 2000 to February 2007. Based on total U.S. retail sales.

2. An active Internet connection is required for Math Online Help, Update Encarta, Web Links, Weather and Radio Links and Encarta Premium Online. Update Encarta and Math Online Help are available through October 2008. Access to Encarta Online Premium requires a Microsoft .NET Passport (Windows Live ID) and an Internet connection. You must be 13 years or older to create a Windows Live ID.

3. Hotmath contains primarily US-based textbook problems.

Product Description
Some things that are merely elementary could distinguish whether you're a failure or a success. This Student with Encarta Premium 2008 from Microsoft helps make sure that you, as a student, have all the necessary help to excel. Microsoft Student gives young students the resources and tools they need to improve their grades and learn more about their world. The young scholar in your home will improve his or her academic performance, with the combination of features. Requires Windows PC with DVD drive


Customer Reviews:   Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Good Product...   October 6, 2008
I am very glad that I purchased the Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008, because I have already used the product, and have found it useful for my essays for college, and for other information. It's been pretty easy to use.


1 out of 5 stars Microsoft has poor customer service   September 18, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

After waiting on the phone for 15 minutes, transferred twice, one dropped call, and another 15 minute call, I finally learned that this product is not available for purchase at any retail outlet and only available for download. This is not a good option when searching for gift giving ideas. The product seems very impressive. However, the current distribution method via internet download only, at first may seem to be convenient actually diminishes convenience when it is not available for potential customers wishing to purchase through traditional retail outlets (including internet purchase). Competing products, though of lesser quality and appeal, have gained my patronage simply because of availability. Overall, my experience with trying to buy a Microsoft product has been terrible. Buy Britannica.


4 out of 5 stars Microsoft student 2008   August 29, 2008
Like the previous edtion 2007,this edition is a very helpful tool for high school students.Guess few students will go to the library anymore nowadays as a result of such enormous help for their homeworks and projects which they can easily find by using the software like this.


5 out of 5 stars Great for College and Graduate Students- Graphing Calculator the best feature   June 28, 2008
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Ok- I've been using this product for a couple of years and it's proved indispensable. Granted, most of the homework templates are useless past the 6th grade...but the graphing calculator alone is worth buying this product. I am able to use my laptop on team projects for business calculus and business statistics classes-- it's a lot easier to swith between Student's graphing calculator and Excel than it is to squint at a little black and grey 'etch-a-sketch' screen (handheld graphing calculator). The calculator gives you the answer in both decimal and fraction form (makes everybody jealous). It has an equation solver, integrating, solving matrices, permutations, variance analysis are soooo much easier with this than navigating through 50 menus on your TI-84. You get a nice large work area to input your problems... Oh, and did I mention you can copy and paste your problems into Word-- and then edit them with equation editor? (another time saver)--- AND you can save the 'worksheets' with all of the problems you're working on- another great feature if you're going to re-use the same equation with different variables.

Ok- as for the other stuff.... the translator feature is great- It has a Spanish, French, Italian, and German dictionary- shows you similarly spelled words in case you're unsure of the whole word. The unit conversion tool is pretty cool, but not a huge feature. (I use google's coversion tool and m-w.com more often for dictionary lookup). Lastly, most of my classes don't allow me to cite Wikipedia in my papers- so I use the Encarta encyclopedia as a source. The encyclopedia offers interactive maps and video clips with most of the articles-- the pictures are hi-res too if you need to illustrate your document..... This software is worth every penny- though I'd wait for it to go on sale at Best Buy in August for $20 (always goes on sale before school). The other software that I use in conjunction with Student is OneNote.



1 out of 5 stars microsoft student   April 20, 2008
 0 out of 7 found this review helpful

The progam is too advance for an elementary school student and that information is not mention on none of the product description this product is design for a college student. I will not recommended to any other parent. the software is too complecated and not userfriendly at all and homework help there is none

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