Microsoft® Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition (Cpg-Other)

Editorial Review:

The fifth edition of the award-winning MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY now features more than 10,000 entries! It's been fully updated and expanded to cover the latest technologies and terminology you will encounter at work or home-from encryption to XML, Linux to Microsoft .NET, Tablet PCs to digital TV. MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY clearly and authoritatively defines computer terms and concepts-including the myriad acronyms, jargon, and slang the high-tech industry generates!

Computers--and the community of people that surrounds them--do an excellent job of generating jargon. They've created a world of RJ-11 jacks, Lempel Ziv compression, TACACS protocols, and data forks. Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fourth Edition, explains all these terms and thousands more. It's a sort of miniencyclopedia of computing topics.

The dictionary focuses on providing beginning and intermediate computer users with a solid grounding in terms, technologies, and concepts related to productivity software, databases, and networks. Communications technologies--such as those related to mobile phones--get attention too. This latest edition of the dictionary includes a selection of terms related to the Year 2000 bug, though these terms are inexplicably isolated in a special appendix.

The Microsoft Computer Dictionary generally treats non-Microsoft technologies evenhandedly--the entries related to Sun Microsystems' Java language might even be construed as boosterish. However, a Microsoft slant sometimes appears, as in the coverage of palm-size PCs. There's no mention of 3Com's topselling Palm computers or its operating systems, though Windows CE is mentioned.

Cross-referencing, particularly of acronyms, is excellent. The companion CD-ROM allows you to quickly search for dictionary terms and also includes The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications. --David Wall

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Showing its age, but still the best. New edition would be timely.:

The Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, is, in my opinion, still the best all-around computer dictionary out there. For technical writers, consultants and anyone who needs to use technology related words precisely, this is the place to go. (There is also another volume from Microsoft Press on networking terms.)
It's 10,000+ entries are unambiguous and precise. There are a few illustrations, but they add little to the value of the dictionary.
Microsoft stopped supplying a CD-ROM with the... more info

First Buy. Great Success.:

The Fifth Edition of the Microsoft Computer Dictionary was a great addition to my personal library. I am new to personal computers and am very much in need O- level literature. Books like this one and other Microsoft publications are indeed a great boon to amateur scientists of my age.
Dr. Amit Das,
8/80 Visnulayam Street,
India, PIN 533464.

GOOD, BUT NOT THE BEST VALUE:

Yes, this edition of "Microsoft Computer Dictionary" has been revised and updated, when compared to the previous editions. Its 10,000 entries centered on software, hardware, and internet terms. They are easy to understand. But the fact that Microsoft stopped adding attached CD-ROMs (with this edition), without any significant price reduction is irritating. It depicts the company's insensitivity to the consumer needs.
However, this is not a bad dictionary to use, if you will tolerate this latest... more info

Microsoft Computer Dictionary , Fifth Edition by MICROSOFT P:

I personally think that as far as Computer Dictionaries go this is an excellent one , but I must WARN YOU.... If you looking for the accompanying CD that came with all the past versions , YOUR OUT OF LUCK.... I think portability is a big factor and having the book on CD in the field is much easier than lugging the desktop book around.. EITHER "MICROSOFT" PRESS IS GETTING REALLY CHEAP OR BILL IS GETTING PARANOID OVER ALL THE LAWSUITS AND DECIDED TO SAVE SOME MONEY , I DON'T KNOW.. I DO KNOW THAT I GIVE THIS... more info

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