PowerWord is designed for people learning or practicing Chinese at all levels. PowerWord guides you word by word through explanations, examples, pronunciations and translations. Providing all your language and translation needs through the comprehensive English and Chinese database with more than 200 million words, abbreviations, and names from 6 internationally recognized Chinese English dictionaries. Plus it has a large variety of terminologies used in almost all professions from more than thirty Scientific, Engineering, Law, Medical, and Business dictionaries.Instant two-way English Chinese translation on documents by all popular software such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, and Acrobat Reader. Real time translation of web content at cursor point.It pronounces English and Chinese (Standard Mandarin) words and sentences by native male and female voices for you to learn to speak like a native speaker.Comprehensive explanation of Chinese and English words and cultures by various means such as the origin of words/characters, definitions, phrases, examples, synonyms, and antonyms for each word and character. It allows the user to search the entire Internet on selected words in Chinese or English with one click through popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. User-friendly English or Chinese interfaces The current version supports simplified Chinese, which is used in mainland China (PRC), Singapore, and Hong Kong. (Taiwan still uses traditional Chinese.) It also has English interface. No special Chinese language OS is required to install and use this product. System requirements:Microsoft English/Chinese Windows95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP Pentium 133 or faster 32MB RAM 300MB HD CD-ROM Sound Card