Most consumer reports are important in advising consumers to do three things when considering purchasing a product.

a) research, research and more research
b) comparison shopping
c) how will this product fit into my lifestyle

A program or a device capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal is known as Codec. Codec is an algorithm used to code and decode the voice conversation in case of VoIP. The voice and sound that we hear is in analogue form and needs to be converted into a digital form for transmission over Internet. On the other side, it needs to be decoded once again to make it easy to hear for the recipient. The coding and decoding can be done in different ways by utilizing compression to reduce the bandwidth of the conversation.

While Microsoft Encarta Premium 2006 marked Microsoft's commitment to the Web - Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 marks its commitments to its own technology.

The previous versions of Encarta included a host of homework tools. Last year, these have been made into a separate product called Microsoft Student. It has now been gainfully repackaged and very much enhanced.

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