September 2005 — News/In Brief
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Microsoft Releases Four New Academic Products
Microsoft Corp.
(www.microsoft.com/education)
has released
four new academic-specific
products, all available
in time for the
new school year:
Learning Essentials
for Microsoft
Office, Microsoft
Shared Computer
Toolkit for Windows
XP, Microsoft
Student 2006,
and Microsoft
Encarta Academic
Online. Learning Essentials,
which runs atop any version of
Office XP or 2003, gives students
and teachers a customized Office
environment with tools to help
them start and complete assignments
more effectively and intuitively.
The Shared Computer
Toolkit is a powerful combination
of software tools and documentation
that help optimize
and reduce the total cost of
owning and operating Windows
XP-based computers in shared
environments such as school
libraries and computer labs.
Microsoft Student 2006 guides
junior high and high school
students through
the learning process
by offering
subject-specific
homework tools,
such as graphing
calculator software
and the Learning
Essentials program.
Finally, Microsoft’s
Encarta Academic
Online gives every
student one-click access to
Encarta reference content in
seven languages for 11 countries.
All of the products,
excluding the Toolkit, are available
for Academic Volume
Licensing.
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