Encyclopedia Britannica 2000 Deluxe

2.8 | 10 ratings

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Dwight

Not worth the trouble

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2000

Read the other reviews. All the problems they've had, I've had as well-plus some. Install doesn't work without a lot of help, and tech support is nonexistent. On one problem, still not solved, I've e-mailed for help to Britannica three times, with no reply. This lack of replies is consistent, at least. It goes well with the first set of several e-mails sent to them on problems I was eventually able to solve by other means, sometimes after several hours, even, in one case, a few days. It's sort of a challenge, but that's not exactly why I purchased this thing in the first place.
When it works, it's not bad. It appears to be more complete that the other three I've tried (Grolier, Encarta, and Compton's), although I agree with time_velocity that it's far from what it could have been. It's a little short on visual media. Its search engine works pretty well. The articles are not deep, but are deeper than the competition.
If I had it to do again, I'd wait another year-or more.

Amazon Customer

Ackward implementation and poor ease of use

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 1999

What is EB afraid of? That we will print our the 40,000 pages and bind our own set for the bookshelf?
They could really have a great product, but they don't seem to have their heart into the computer version. EB seems to treat this as a teaser for the print version. I hope they get this right in the future. I hope they avoid the flavor of the other CD references, and stake out a high ground of scholorship, relevance, and authoritative fact checking. They could fill a large void in education, business, and home markets with such a tool.

Benjamin Rowe

Extremely irritating interface

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2000

The user interface for the Brittanica has gotten worse in every year since the first CD-ROM version was isssued. Too many bells and whistles, all of them amiguously named and idiosyncratic in operation. The current version has irritated me so much that I unistalled it and went back to using the 1997 version, which has a very simple interface using Netscape 2.0. The material the encyclopedia provides is still excellect, but it is very difficult to find what you need.

Amazon Customer

Best Encyclopedia

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2000

Britannica worked flawlessly on my computer and helped me write many reports with the help of the Research Assistant. The articles were in depth and interesting. Compass and Analyst helped with visual aids as did the timelines. Overall, Britannica was very easy to use.

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Britannica Deluxe 2000

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2000

This product is not ready for prime time though the content is great. The installation is proned to errors. The product does not follow the standard Windows interface and can not be re-sized which means you get very small text on a large screen (I assume it was ported from a Mac without regard to how it functions under Windows and it shows in many places as you try to navigate).

Greg Opp

Britannica 2000 is problematic

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2000

At first, Britannica 2000 CD worked reasonably well. However, now, it does not work at all. It hangs during application start-up. I suspect it has a problem sharing one or more DLLs with other applications, since there was an update to Britannica 1999 to resolve a similar problem. The excellent content is of NO value if you can't access it (and I can't).

Diego Banducci

Do NOT buy this software.

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2000

Britannica is now owned by . . . (are you ready?) . . . Matell Interactive. And this product shows it.
I have tried two separate versions of Britannica (most recently the DVD version) and neither one loaded properly. Thinking that there must be something wrong with me or my machines, I went to the reviews at [...] a website frequented by knowledgeable computer users, and found that a lot of other users were experiencing the same frustrations.
A real software company would post a downloadable fix, but if you go to the Britannica website ([...] you won't find one. There are two possible explanations: (1) the software is so defective that Mattel has not been able to develop a fix, or (2) they don't care. Either way, buyers end up on the losing end.

Ike

Buy this product or flush your $$$ = same

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2000

What a disappointment. What a waste of money. I can find data faster using the 'analog' method, i.e. visiting the public library. I'll NEVER buy software from Britannica again.

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