Microsoft includes Encarta with Student software. student encarta. Microsoft will offer an updated version of its "Student" software that includes a few new features as well as the encyclopedia Encarta Premium 2007.. Microsoft will offer an updated version of its "Student" software that includes a few new features as well as the encyclopedia Encarta Premium 2007. As a more "technology-based" resource - in contrast to a search-engine based research on the Internet - Microsoft says that its Student with Encarta software provides "integrated tools and trusted information" that can be used from middle-school through entry-level college. Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2007 DVD3 is expected to be on store shelves this month for about $70....

Microsoft finally debuted its own Web search technology on Thursday, hoping to challenge Google Inc.'s long dominance of the field with results tailored to a user's location and answers from its Encarta encyclopedia. Microsoft finally debuted its own Web search technology on Thursday, hoping to challenge Google Inc.’s long dominance of the field with results tailored to a user’s location and answers from its Encarta encyclopedia....

One example showed how you can open up an MSN IM chat with the Yellow Pages to look up an address, and another made the data from Encarta accessible via an English-language query....

A similar demonstration was performed with Microsoft Encarta, which led a terse, though explanatory, virtual conversation with a user about various statistics on African elephants....

Upcoming search technology will also be able to extract keywords from texts and connect the information to definitions on Wikipedia or Encarta, to images on Flickr or videos on YouTube....