Amazon.co.uk Review
When you have to know everything about everything, it's hard to beat
Microsoft Encarta Reference Suite 2001. This DVD (also available in a
six CD-ROM edition) will help you find and organise information from almost a quarter of a million articles, including comprehensive text, pictures, sounds (even pronunciations!) and video. More than just an encyclopaedia, the suite also contains time lines, the World English Dictionary, a thesaurus, book of quotations, style manual, 2001 almanac, the Encarta Interactive World Atlas. A tremendous amount of information; more impressive is that it is updated monthly with online files that add to or modify the data on disc.
The Suite comes with a one-year subscription to Encarta Online Deluxe, which permits you to access up-to-date information from any computer in the world via the Internet. The powerful cross referencing afforded by hypertext and the Web makes online reference tools vastly more powerful than their paper-and-ink ancestors, and Encarta is clearly the most wide ranging and thorough available yet. The interface is child and adult-friendly, and the online help available makes learning incredibly easy--you can even ask natural-language questions and get strikingly germane references. It's powerful, it's portable, and it will tell you practically anything you need to know. What more can you ask? --Rob Lightner
Manufacturer's Description
Microsoft Encarta Reference Suite 2001 DVD-ROM combines five award-winning products into an integrated reference library and research tool that lets your family quickly find the information they need using a PC and the Internet. Encarta Reference Suite 2001 contains 277,400 articles, 25,300 illustrations and photos, 81,100 sounds and pronunciations, and 31,500 Web links.
