Oh and the computer Dictionary that shipped with the previous release of Encarta is no longer included, although there are signs it has been partly integrated into the dictionary.
New additions to this part of Encarta include the Encarta Thesaurus and more articles, text and pronunciations. Microsoft FactFinder. Another new feature - Microsoft FactFinder, is a quick reference tool that gives you dictionary definitions, encyclopedia articles, and relevant Web content.
You can use FactFinder in two views. In Full view, you can perform in-depth searches on reference information and view search results easily. In Mini view, you can work in any other application while keeping the FactFinder window open, and get on-the-fly definitions or other quick information. This is a surprisingly useful tool for working on articles, news or anything written.
You can also run FactFinder in mini view, this allows you to just hover over a word for a second and then FactFinder finding out what the word means. Who can knock a program which even finds information on our very own ActiveWin! Note: FactFinder does not seem to be included in localized versions of Encarta. FactFinder In Mini Mode. Encarta Africana. In Encarta , there is no longer a separate area for Encarta Africana, it has now been completely blended in to the rest of the Encarta Encyclopedia.
This area consists of a number of videos, which are narrated by some very famous people such as Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, Comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones and Colin Powell, each video lasts minutes and each one was very interesting to listen through. Next we have the Africana Timeline, the Africana Music Timeline and the Civil Rights Chronology, from here you can read all about the Civil Rights Movement between the years of and , again there are links to articles, video clips, music to listen to and photos to glance over in this section, yet another interesting read.
You can also read all about Africana music via the timeline shown below, this contains music media, links and articles to a number of different styles of music from the 's to the 's and is an excellent read and listen through. Finally we have the "Library Of Black America", it now contains over pieces of work written by African-Americans prior to and there are pages and pages of work to read through here.
The library ranges from novels, slave narratives to poetry and other works. There are many, many more sections that you can go through that I have not mentioned in my review such as Historic Sites In Africa, African Maps, Africa To The Americas but a lot of these are similar in style to the Encarta release that came out not so long ago. As usual with Encarta there are a number of excellent links to websites that you will come across for example, if you were looking at an actors information in Encarta Africana you could click on a link that would take you to the Internet Movie Database to find out even more about that particular person.
I can't say enough good things about Encarta Reference Library, it really is an excellent purchase. There is so much information that it will take months for most people to work through it all. The only downside has to be that most of the images and videos you will have seen before if you have owned any of the previous last 3 releases of Encarta on DVD and I feel that with the DVD edition they could certainly be expanded on and the videos made in a better quality than they are currently, especially when you consider just how much space can be used on a DVD.
One last complaint, if you are going to use the Encarta. But there are yet again some very good additions to Encarta and the quality of the Encyclopedia can't be bettered right now in my view. So if you are going to buy any version of Encarta this year, get this one. News, Weather and Radio. ActiveWin: Reviews. Support Center. Windows Windows Me. Windows Server Windows Vista. News Search. Xbox News.
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Early in , the online Encarta started to allow users to suggest changes to existing articles. Instead, user feedback was submitted to Encarta's editors for review, copyediting, and approval. It used short sentences from the Encarta website, and sometimes displays full articles in the Internet Explorer -based browser on the right.
It also could complete simple mathematical and advanced algebra problems. This service was also available in German, [29] Spanish, [30] French [31] and Japanese. Each summer, Microsoft published a new version of Encarta. However, despite the inclusion of news-related and some supplementary articles, Encarta's contents had not been changed substantially in its later years.
Besides the yearly update, the installed offline copy could be updated over the Internet for a certain period for free depending on the edition. Some articles usually about were updated to reflect important changes or events.
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