• Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office: a set of add-ons to Office XP/2003 that includes toolbars, tutorials and templates for common student tasks.
  
  
• Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP: software tools and documentation for locking down shared computers. A public beta of this is available at http://www.microsoft.com/sharedaccess
  
  
• Microsoft Student 2006: "a productivity resource to help middle- and high-school students complete high-quality homework assignments and projects". Features include:
  
  
  
  • "Graphing Calculator software to help students visualize and understand difficult math and science concepts through 2-D and 3-D graphing capabilities
    
  • Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office
    
  • Additional tools streamline Internet searches to provide trusted Encarta content
    
  
  It is interesting to note that they are not marketing this as "Encarta plus extra stuff", but rather as a student productivity suite. In fact, they only subtly say that Encarta is included as part of the product.
  
  
• Encarta Academic Online: "a new academic-specific, online version of Microsoft's reference library, suite of homework tools and rich multimedia content. Encarta Academic Online features a new interface optimized for academic searches and gives students one-click access to Encarta reference content in seven languages for 11 countries."
  

Labels: Encarta, reference

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