Features:

Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 is a comprehensive, subject–specific resource designed to help middle– and high–school students complete high–quality homework assignments and projects in less time. With curriculum–based templates and tutorials, a fully functional graphing calculator with 2–D and 3–D four–color graphing capabilities, trusted content, and tools for cutting through online clutter, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 provides students with the tools and information they need to achieve academic success.

Find help online for math homework

Help with difficult homework assignments is just a few clicks away for basic math, algebra, advanced algebra, and geometry*. There’s even a good chance that students can find the precise page and problem they’re working on. Step–by–step instructions and hints are based on actual textbooks from major publishers.*

Help students start–and finish–assignments more quickly

Students can get tips for starting, managing, and completing work on essays, research papers, book reports, creative–writing projects, science projects, art projects, and oral presentations with Project Quick Starters in Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007. A set of Book Summaries helps students understand and appreciate over a thousand classic works of literature, with synopses, analysis of themes and characters, and ideas for writing book reports.

Learning Essentials for Students

Microsoft Office–compatible templates, tutorials, and toolbars help students create high–quality reports and presentations.

Graphing Calculator

A customizable 3–D calculator helps students visualize and solve complex math and science problems. Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 comes with an invaluable tool for math and science homework: powerful, easy–to–use Graphing Calculator software, the perfect complement to the handheld calculators typically required in middle and high school. A full–color display with 2–D and 3–D charting capabilities helps students visualize difficult problems in trigonometry, calculus, chemistry, and physics classes, and students can enter problems just as they appear in their textbooks. The ability to view, rotate, and animate large, colorful graphs makes understanding difficult concepts and problem–solving in advanced math and science courses significantly easier. Students can also save their work–to finish later, add to Word or PowerPoint documents, or share with study groups.

Customizable, interchangeable Calculator Skins let students personalize the Graphing Calculator and express their individual style.

Web Companion

Web Companion improves Internet research with editorially approved content that is presented alongside Web search results.

Online math homework help

Complete sets of questions and answers taken directly from popular math textbooks offer step–by–step help.

Encarta Premium Encyclopedia

A full version of Microsoft Encarta Premium provides a world of trusted information to explore.

Book Summaries

Over one thousand in–depth guides help students gain a better understanding of popular literary works.

Project starters

Organizational guides and tools take the stress out of starting projects.

Streamline searches with Web Companion

Help students avoid the frustration of unfocused Web searches. When students do research online, Web Companion will bring up accurate, trusted information alongside the search–engine results–right in the browser, without launching additional applications.

Get the facts with Microsoft Encarta Premium 2006

Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 includes a full version of Encarta Premium 2006, with the Encarta Dictionary and Thesaurus, as well as more than 68,000 Encarta encyclopedia articles, edited by a team of thousands of experts in science, history, geography, and math. The Encarta Search Bar in the Windows task pane provides even faster, easier access to this wealth of information.

System Requirements:

• A multimedia computer with a Pentium 500–MHz processor or faster (1 GHz or higher recommended)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4, or Windows XP operating system. Learning Essentials requires Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4 or Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003, XP or Vista. 
• Minimum 256 MB of RAM for Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 or Windows XP
• 850 MB of available hard–disk space; Encarta Kids requires an additional 330 MB of hard–disk space
• DVD–ROM drive
• 4 MB of VRAM; 16–bit SVGA or higher monitor supporting 800x600 screen resolution (1024x768 recommended)
• Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device
• 16–bit sound card with speakers or headphones

Additional items or services required to use certain features:

• Some features require an Internet connection. Access to and use of the Internet may require payment of a separate fee to an Internet service provider. Local and long distance telephone call charges may apply
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (included on disk) or later; users can maintain other default browsers after installation (requires up to 75 MB of additional hard–disk space)
• Microsoft.NET Framework 1.1 requires an additional 160 MB of hard–disk space. (included on disk)

To access sounds and videos, Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 is required.

To use Update Encarta, Web links and Encarta Premium Online, you need:

• 28.8 Kbps or faster modem
• Access to the Internet
• Up to 4 MB of additional hard–disk space for each month’s installment 
• Club Encarta Registration

To use Encarta Kids, you need:

• 450 MB of additional available hard–disk space 
• To use the Copy to Hard Drive feature, you need
• Up to 2.1 GB of additional available hard–disk space

To hear the Encarta Dictionary Pronunciations, you need:

• Up to 150 MB of additional available hard–disk space

* Note:

An active Internet connection required for Live Media, Update Encarta, Web Links and access to Encarta Premium. Update Encarta and access to Encarta Premium Online available through October 2006 Club Encarta required for Update Encarta and access to Encarta Premium Online. Registration for Club Encarta requires a Microsoft®.NET Passport and an Internet connection. You must be 13 years or older to join Club Encarta.