Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 [OLD VERSION] | ![Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xwzoyE1iL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
Buy Used: $39.99
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 3345
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.4
MPN: fb7-00442
Model: FB7-00442
UPC: 882224193443
EAN: 0882224193443
ASIN: B000FL2DQS
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | More multimedia resources than ever, including more than 300 videos, 3000 sound clips, 26,000 photos, and illustrations from trusted sources | | • | Geopolitical, climatic, and topographical maps of the world, with links to related information | | • | See historic events and places with 2-and 3-D virtual tours | | • | Input your own problems into the new Equation Solver and get a quick answer and step-by-step help on how to solve it | | • | Thousands of media-rich, up-to-date articles by authors who are experts in their field |
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Product Description
Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 helps families and lifelong learners explore a world of knowledge. It offers engaging multimedia and more carefully reviewed, age-appropriate information than ever. Browse over 60,000 articles, over 25,000 photos and illustrations, over 300 videos and animations & over 2,500 sound and music clips. The encyclopedia also has an interactive atlas with over 1.8 million map locations. The all-new Web Companion automatically pulls up information from Encarta alongside your Internet search results. Whether you're searching online or offline, Encarta Premium is the trusted way for everyone in the family to easily find just about anything on just about any subject. Continuous updates keep content up-to-date & adds new information directly into articles
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Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 provides up-to-date content and engaging multimedia. Whether you're searching online or offline, it's the trusted way for everyone in the family to easily find relevant and reliable information on just about any subject. Encarta Premium 2007 features a new look and feel that makes it easy to use. You'll be able to get started right away exploring scholarly knowledge from one of the world's most trusted encyclopedias. 
Many Encarta articles have links to photos, video, articles on related topics, and links to approved content on the Web. View larger.
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Encarta maps let you zoom in and out to see more or less detail, and you can click anywhere on the map to find instant links to related information. View larger.
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Encarta Kids provides children ages 7-12 a safer place to explore all kinds of topics. View larger.
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The Web Companion results include trusted information from both Encarta Premium 2007 and the Web. View larger. | Thousands of media-rich, up-to-date articles you can trust
When searching offline, you can access more than 64,000 articles on just about any topic?with links to related information. The authors of the detailed articles in Encarta Premium 2007 are experts in their field. And every time you go online, your Encarta Premium 2007 content is updated with automatic downloads that add new information directly into existing articles. Many Encarta articles are enhanced with rich multimedia content. Encarta Premium 2007 contains more multimedia resources than ever, including more than 300 videos, 3000 sound clips, 26,000 photos, and illustrations from trusted sources. Want to watch wildlife? Explore Mars? Travel the globe from the comfort of your home? Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 has the visual tools to help. See historic events and places with 2-and 3-D virtual tours. Get a new perspective on the past with the unique Dynamic Timeline, which illustrates key events from geologic time to the present day. Feel the excitement of swimming with the sharks and more. Enjoy the 32 captivating videos from the Discovery Channel which let you view a range of topics in detail. Some Encarta articles also include virtual tours: From our solar system to the ruins of Pompeii, special images guide you through the physical layout of the subjects that interest you. Search more efficiently using Web Companion
Information is readily accessible thanks to the Encarta Search Bar. Results include trusted information from both Encarta Premium 2007 and the Web. Many Internet searches bring up links that aren't relevant to the research subject. Using Web Companion to conduct searches, students instantly see links to related Encarta content. Geopolitical, climatic, and topographical maps of the world
Zoom in and out to see more or less detail. Click anywhere on the map and find instant links to related information. New 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. A wide range of trusted Encarta reference tools
Encarta Premium 2007 includes a dictionary, a thesaurus, and translation dictionaries. Editorially approved content
Kids can use Web Links to over 29,000 Web sites, pre-selected by Encarta editors for relevant and age-appropriate research material. Encarta Kids
This special area is for younger learners, ages 7 to 12. Packed with age-appropriate articles and lively multimedia, Encarta Kids provides your children with a safer place to explore all kinds of topics. Learning will become a lifetime activity. This colorful, easy to navigate environment has plenty of maps, photos, and interactive quizzes to engage your children's imaginations. With age-appropriate articles, maps, and photos, it's a great place for children to explore their universe.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 MS Encarta January 6, 2009
Carol Balsiger
Good reference encyclopedia, but with many more encyclopedias online I do not use it much except for playing the games on it and using the dictionary..I use the dict. the most!!!!
 Comprehensive and useful August 27, 2007
James M. Keane
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
At 3 Gigs it takes up a lot, but it delivers a lot as well. A worthy successor to 2002's version, it is incredubly useful for writers such as myself. A full encyclopeadia in my laptop, comprehensive and intuative, who could ask for more?
You can also update for up to a year, or join the Encarta Club for additional features.
 Don't buy it for the Atlas July 17, 2007
Aaron Lambert
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you think that getting the latest Encarta means getting the latest data and information... think again. I got this hoping to update my trusty Encarta 2001 installation (which I have just for the wonderful interactive virtual globe.. now somewhat surpassed by Google Earth but still great). Before uninstalling the 2007 version (Encarta won't allow more than one installation on a machine) I took some screenshots from the 2001 Atlas. Having installed the 2007 version, I did some comparisons... and found the map data is exactly the same! Yup, what you got in 2001, you get in 2007, and nothing more! OK, so there are some political updates in the big, obvious cases - Montenegro, for example, is shown correctly in Encarta 2007 as an autonomous region, a status it didn't have back in 2001. But these differences are few and far between (I could only find a couple). In the main, the *geographical* data is exactly the same as it was 6 years ago. For example, the map of the Aral Sea shown in Encarta 2007 IS EXACTLY THE SAME, pixel for pixel, as the Aral Sea shown in Encarta 2001 - despite the fact that it has shrunk more than 50% in size since then. Already in 2001 the map was a couple of years out of date, but now it's quite hopeless. Placename information is much the same, despite many changes in the real world. Just one example - Meigs Field Airport in Chicago ceased to exist in 2003 but despite yearly updates to the Encarta Encyclopedia, there it is, still cheerfully shown in the Encarta 2007 World Atlas (4 updates later). In fact, the entire Chicagoland area in the 2007 atlas is EXACTLY the same as in the 2001 edition, pixel for pixel, placename for placename.
So, apparently the Encarta Atlas 2007 people think we're too stupid, or igorant, to notice? Or is it just that it doesn't really matter to them to be accurate? Bring out yearly updates but make no changes to the core data? This isn't a very serious reference work, is it? OK, perhaps, for the occasional schoolboy homework assignment, but not for anything more important, is the message they are giving us. I used to think electronic editions of books would make for more rapid updates - but this demonstrates the reverse is true. The latest edition of the Times Atlas of the World is 2005 (hardcover only) and will give you much more up to date geographical information than the 2007 (or 2008) edition of the Encarta. And the previous edition of the Times Atlas was 2001, which just goes to show you - the printed version, in this case, is the more quickly updated version.
As a side note, a change that I find quite unwelcome in the 2007 edition (and in earlier ones after 2001, as far as I know) is that you don't get any choices on what to install. It's either everything, or nothing. With Encarta 2001, you got an extensive choice on what to install. I installed the Atlas only (and consider it alone well worth the price of the full product) and nothing else. Now, that is impossible. Apparently the Encarta people think we're too stupid to THINK about what we're doing when installing, so we are given no options, no choices?
Finally, the interface (for the Atlas) is far superior in the 2001 Encarta. In the later versions, including the 2007 version, it is all integrated with the other content, and it is clunky and annoying. If I am looking for a place on the map, I don't need 20 links to other irrelevant rubbish. Furthermore, you have to click TWICE to search for a placename in the 2007 version - once to get a general list of related content in the entire Encarta, and one reference to a map, which doesn't do a very thorough listing of the Atlas index, then another click to search the Atlas index by itself, which reveals a lot more hits to the Atlas index. In the 2001 version, you get JUST the Atlas hits for placenames right from the get-go, which is what I want.
I uninstalled the Encarta 2007 version and will be selling it on eBay, and have now gone back to the trusty 2001 Encarata.
ERWW From South Carolina June 20, 2007
E. Washington (Columbia, SC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent product that was received within three days.Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007
I am very pleased with this product. I purchased my first Encarta software in 1998 with Microsoft Works Suite. This version has many new additional features that makes learning fun for any age. Unlike my 1988 collection of World Book, Encarta Premium 2007 can be updated when you go online. It is an excellent value for the money and there are no more annuals to buy.
quick delivery June 6, 2007
Mr. Ray Santa
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
i was very happy with encarta 2007 ,works with Vista. the delivery came quick!
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