Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $25.23

Features:

• A full-featured 2-D and 3-D graphing calculator with tools for graphing scientific formulas and math equations from simple math to calculus
• Students can produce outstanding book reports, creative projects, essays and oral presentations using the wide range of reference materials
• Translation dictionaries for French, German, Spanish, and Italian
• A full version of Encarta Premium 2007 encyclopedia
• Online math homework help with a one-year subscription to Hotmath

Accessories:

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Customer Reviews:

A program for everyone [Posted on 2007-01-03]
I purchased this program simply for the Encarta 2007. I was amazed at all of the wonderful features that Microsoft put into the package. I feel that anyone in school or not would find this program to be a useful tool in your daily life. Enjoy it.

Grandkids approval says it all.... [Posted on 2007-01-18]
I gave my grandson, ages 12 & 15, the Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 for Christmas. I thought it would be a wonderful aide in the subjects they were studing at school. However, my concern was..."Would it be difficult to navigate and not be used or would they even use it enough to discover all the benefits of the software?"

Well, they are raving about how great it has been in assisting them with their schoolwork...especially in Geometry and Algebra. Mom loves it too because the math help not only gives the answer but explains the steps on how to arrive at the answer.

For my book...money well spent. It is so hard to buy a gift for teenagers that they get excited about... especially one that pertains to schoolwork. I was well pleased with their excitement about the product. I was satisfied with how easy the program was to use.

Use the product once and you will find a live-in tutor.

Wonderful encyclopedia [Posted on 2007-01-31]
I love Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 (boy is that a tounge roller!)! It's a serves as a great encyclopedia, and it's very useful. I don't however use the "Student" part so much. The Student Part, really just has to do with Office programs, and making nice charts,graphs, book reports, and stuff, and I don't usually do that. I've been using it since October 2006, and it comes in handy. I do like it's online feature, so that you can access quality Encarta info. from anyplace with internet connection (although you have to activate it yourself, by going to File > Encarta on the Web, which I would never have know of until I poked around) So it's neat to get good Encarta info. right from the web, which last only for a year. I like how the menu bar got less cluttered. It's relatively simple now. They display the content very well and organized. Overall it's good. But there are problems. Here's the basic pros and cons of it all.

Pros:
- multimedia is awesome
- content is displayed very nice
- web feature is very handy anywhere
- student tools are easy to use, and instructive
- menu bar got less cluttered
- Encarta Kids is actually great for kids
- it's just really simple and nice

Cons:
- No Automatic updates : I want it to update on it's own, without me having to press the update button
- there really isn't usually a lot of info. on topics, like for example, if you look at the articles for Dragon in Encarta and Wikipedia, Encarta has 2 pictures, and 3 paragraphs, while Wikipedia has 8 pictures, and many paragraphs about it. Can't they do better?
- takes while to install, and takes up a good amount of hard drive, although you can always just use it on the CD if you want to, but I prefer not having to drop in the CD everytime to use it.

That's really about it. I just wish Microsoft could have done more to it. Encarta has the potential being in every school around the country if there was a reason to do so. Like maybe you could read e-books in it, download skins & more from the Encarta site, be the basic things teachers and students could use at school if there was good reason to. Most of it sounds superficial, but I've got a lot of ideas how to make the future-gen Encarta to be the most ultimate learning thing in the world. I just at least hope in the next version, they provide more info. in their articles, along with more multimedia. I also want their to be skins that you could change, and that the articles could even be put in simpler use. I just want it to be better, and it really didn't fill my expectations like I thought it would, which is why I gave it 4 stars. I'm usually a big fan over Microsoft products (sorry Apple fans) but Encarta seems to disappoint me a bit. Overall though, it's really good, just not something you should completely think of spending your money on.

Great Educational Tool!!! [Posted on 2007-03-25]
I've been using this product for awhile, and I'm delighted with it. I got my Algebra I Homework done in 1/5 the time it usually takes me! In addition to this, when I feel like learning, I watch some of the Discovery Channel videos that are included with this. Even better is that this product comes with a $[...], reducing its overall price to $[...]. Today I'm going to use it to help me write a five paragraph essay.

I love Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007, and you will too! Buy it! Trust me, you WON'T be disappointed.

MS Student 2007 not recommended [Posted on 2007-11-17]
I am a secondary math teacher looking for software resources of which MS Student will not be included. I utilize other electronic curriculums and am familiar with (& own)other programs on the market for Algebra, and was very disappointed that Student 2007 contained very little actual text book source info, contrary to several reviews that deceived me. It is ok as a supplement to text books, particularly where a graphing calculator is used, but will not tutor students as claimed in a systematic fashion. Student 2007 disappoints me because it claims: "In one convenient package, Microsoft Student 2007 provides students with templates, organizational tools, tutorials, translator tools, and a just about everything else they'll need to finish -- and ace! -- their French homework, algebra exam and research papers." Wrong choice for algebra. Glad I only bought one copy for me.

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