Microsoft.encarta.premium.2009 review

Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Type msconfig in the search box, and then tap or click msconfig.

On the General tab, tap or click the Normal Startup option. Tap or click the Services tab, clear the check box beside Hide all Microsoft services , and then tap or click Enable all. Tap or click the Startup tab, and then tap or click Open Task Manager.

In task manager, enable all of your startup programs, and then tap or click OK. When you are prompted to restart the computer, tap or click Restart. How satisfied are you with this reply? Microsoft would do well to incorporate collaborative and Web publishing tools in this product. MS Student does not equip and empower the student to collaborate with teachers and classmates on class projects and to seamlessly publish his or her results and work on the Web.

All in all, MS Student is a great contribution to learning. Inevitably, it has a few flaws and glitches. Start with the price. As productivity suites go, it is reasonably priced had its target population been adult professional users.

Fully installed on the hard disk, MS Student , like its predecessors, gobbles up a whopping Gb. That's a lot - even in an age of ever cheaper storage.

Most homesteads still sport PCs with Gb hard disks. The Equation Library is disappointing, as it holds only equations and calculus is sorely neglected throughout. Finally, there is the question of personal creativity and originality. Luckily, MS Student does not spoon-feed its users. It does not substitute for thinking or for study. On the contrary, by providing structured stimuli, it encourages the student to express his or her ideas. It does not do the homework assignments for the student - it merely helps rid them of time-consuming and machine-like functions.

And it opens up to both student and family the wonderful twin universes of knowledge: the Encarta and the Web. Microsoft's Encarta and MS Student The Britannica The Six Sins of the Wikipedia. The Britannica Opens to the Web. Old Reference Works Revived. The Encyclopedia Britannica Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

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