Top Features Include:

It's information you can trust.

• A full version of Encarta Premium 2008, the #1 best-selling encyclopedia software brand for the past 8 years* — comes with Microsoft Student.
• With trusted content that is accurate and up-to-date, students can find the information they’re looking for – quickly and easily with Encarta Premium 2008.
  You will be amazed to see the time that students spend researching, compelled by 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.
• Encarta Premium 2008 comes complete with a wide range of reference tools, including a dynamic atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, and language translation dictionaries.
• Encarta Premium 2008 comes complete with a wide range of reference tools, including:
  - Thousands of trust-worthy Encarta Premium articles, photographs, videos, and sound clips that make learning more fun.
  - A Dictionary, Thesaurus, Worldwide Maps, and an Interactive Atlas.
  - 2D and 3D virtual tours that make history come alive!
  - Encarta Kids - a separate encyclopedia geared to young learners ages 7 to 12!
  

It’s like having a personal math tutor.

• 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, students will see how to solve problems — step by step! Works for all grade levels — from basic math, pre-algebra, algebra (including logarithms and exponents) to trigonometry!
• Equation Solver. Enter a problem into the Equation Solver and get step-by-step help on how to solve it.
• Need advanced help? A full-featured graphing calculator that’s simple to learn and use (equal to those costing more than $100!) helps students visualize and solve math and science problems.
• Triangle Solver and Equation Library. Interact with a library of over 100 equations and the relationships of triangles and their parts while viewing associated rules or graphs.
• Unit Conversion Tool This tool is extremely useful in both math and science by making it easy for students to quickly convert units of measure such as Length, Area, Volume, Weight, Temperature and Pressure.

Here’s some help with getting started.

• Sometimes the hardest part about completing a project is getting started. To help solve this problem, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 includes the latest version of Microsoft Learning Essentials.
• Learning Essentials provides step-by-step writing tips and pre-formatted report and presentation templates. This helps students get a head-start in creating great looking reports and presentations for achieving better grades. Learning Essentials works with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel in either Microsoft Office XP, 2003, or the 2007 Microsoft Office system (sold separately).
• Get past the blank page
  Easy-to-use tools, templates, and tutorials help get students past formatting questions and get to the core learning in their assignments. Learning Essentials includes tips and tutorials for managing projects and creating high-quality reports, presentations, science projects, and other assignments.
• Includes:
  - Templates for book reports, creative projects, and oral presentations.
  - Organizational tools for applying to college.
  - Tutorials on how to conduct research, charting and graphing basics, and literary analysis.
  - Brainstorming tools such as the gathering grid, the know-wonder-learn chart, and Venn diagrams.

Help learning foreign languages and digging deeper into literary works.

A full-featured translation dictionary helps with Spanish, French, German, and Italian--and it conjugates verbs for selected languages. Plus, Learning Essentials unlocks tools in Microsoft Office*** specially designed for foreign language study, providing templates and tools for completing assignments in Spanish, French, and German.

Getting more from the story.

Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008 includes over 1,000 book summaries that help students understand the most commonly-studied literary works from the junior high school to college level.

System Requirements:

To use Microsoft® Student with Encarta® Premium 2008, you need:

• A personal computer with a Pentium 600-MHz processor or faster (1 GHz or faster recommended)
• Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
• 1.9 GB of available hard-disk space
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 requires between 210 and 620 MB of hard-disk space (included on disc)
• DVD-ROM drive
• High Color capable or better video card with a minimum 800 × 600 resolution (1024 × 768 recommended)
• Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse® or compatible pointing device
• 16-bit sound card and headphones or speakers

Additional items or services required to use certain features:

• Encarta Kids requires an additional 430 MB of hard-disk space.
• Copy to Hard Drive requires an additional 1.8 GB of available hard-disk space.
• Learning Essentials Templates and Toolbars require Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, or the 2007 Microsoft Office system, available separately.
• Access to sounds and videos require Windows Media® Player 8.
• Access to interactive media requires Adobe Shockwave and Adobe Flash.

To use Math Online Help, Update Encarta, Web Links, Weather and Radio Links, or Encarta Premium Online, you need:

• 28.8-Kbps or faster modem
• An Internet connection
• Internet functionality may require payment of a separate fee to an Internet service provider (ISP); local and/or long-distance telephone toll charges may apply.
• Up to 4 MB of additional hard-disk space required for each month’s installment
• Access to Encarta Premium Online requires a Microsoft .NET Passport (Microsoft Windows LiveTM ID) Note: Content Updates are available until October 2008.

Note:

1. 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.

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