Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary: The comprehensive standard for business, school, library and home
Microsoft Press
ISBN 10: 0735606153 ISBN 13: 9780735606159
Published by Microsoft Pr, 1999
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Over 8,000 entries defining computer terms, slang, and acronyms cover Y2K, hardware, software, the Internet, e-commerce, networks, cyberculture, Windows 98, and UNIX
Review: 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
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary: The ...
Publisher: Microsoft Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Edition: 4th Edition