SELECTSOFT USA The Pop-up New Oxford Dictionary of English (Windows)

The dictionary will display on your title bar as a drop down menu. It is actually designed to work as a module with other dictionaries produced in CD-Rom format by Oxford University Press. I use it frequently in combination with The Pop-up Oxford Thesaurus, and recently added The Pop-up Oxford-Hachette French-English dictionary. You can use as few or as many of the dictionaries as you like.

With so many countries now participating in the European Union, it is essential for anyone who lives, studies or travels in Europe to be multi-lingual. Increasingly, it is important for American users to learn and use other languages -- particularly Spanish, and there is a dual-language version of this as well. The interlocking dual-language dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press work smoothly on a word document, as well as on a web-page.

I have used other dictionary programs, but find that the English dictionary by Oxford is superior to the American Heritage dictionary available on Microsoft's Bookshelf. The American Heritage contains more slang, has shorter entries and is definitely designed for an American user. The Oxford University Press English dictionary lists both American AND British uses for words, has more definitions and the entries are more specific, with less slang.