Microsoft® Computer Dictionary

✍ Scribed by Joanne Woodcock

• Book ID: 127440077
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Edition: 4th
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780735606159
• ASIN: B0010KAIWO

✦ Synopsis

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.