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Product Description For everyone who owns theOxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM, 2.0 or higher, an upgrade 4.0 is available! The upgrade software is compatible with Windows only and your previous version Data CD will be required for validation during installation of the v4.0 software.TheOxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the English Language, defining more than 500,000 words and tracing their usage through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of literary and other sources. The text on theCD-ROM comprises the full text of theOED 2ndEdition, plus the threeAdditions volumes, as well as 7,000 new entries from theOED's continuing research.Most importantly,OED v4.0 on CD-ROM boasts superb search-and-retrieval software, designed specifically for the electronic version, enabling you to investigate theDictionary in ways not possible with the print edition. Questions which might have taken years of patient research can now be answered inseconds.System RequirementsFor users of version 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11.Windows: Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz processor or equivalent (2GHz recommended); Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000; 512MB of RAM; 1Gb free hard disk space; minimum monitor capability: 1024 x 768 pixels and high color (16 bits per pixel, ie 65,536 colors); localCD-ROM/DVD drive (for installation); runs from hard drive only. About the Author John Simpson is Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He has edited the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, and wrote the introduction to The First English Dictionary 1604: Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabetical. He lectures and broadcasts regularly on the English language.