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Microsoft Encarta
Encarta Premium 2008 on Windows Vista
Developer(s)
Microsoft
Final release
2009
/ August 2008; 15 years ago (2008-08)
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
Available in
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese
Type
Encyclopedia
License
Proprietary commercial software
Website
Formerly encarta.msn.com at the Wayback Machine (archived October 31, 2009)
MicrosoftEncarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also available online via annual subscription, although later articles could also be viewed for free online with advertisements.[1] By 2008, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles,[2] numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools.[citation needed]
Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese. Localized versions contained contents licensed from national sources and different amounts of content than the full English version. For example, the Dutch-language version had content from the Dutch Winkler Prins encyclopedia.[3]
In March 2009, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing both the Encarta disc and online versions. The MSN Encarta site was closed on October 31, 2009, in all countries except Japan, where it was closed on December 31, 2009.[4][5] Microsoft continued to operate the Encarta online dictionary until 2011.[6]
^For the free service, one should use the URL "MSN Search". Archived from the original on 2005-08-11. Retrieved 2006-01-07. (MSN Search Encarta) rather than http://encarta.msn.com Archived 2009-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework). Archived 2009-10-31.
^"Encarta 2009 Information". Microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 2009-06-27. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
^Loveland, Jeff (2019). The European Encyclopedia: From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 460. ISBN 9781108481090. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^Important Notice: MSN Encarta to be Discontinued (MSN Encarta). Archived 2009-10-31.
^Protalinski, Emil (March 30, 2009). "Microsoft to kill Encarta later this year:Microsoft has announced that it is discontinuing its Encarta line of products. The software products will be gone by June 2009 and the website will go down October 31, 2009". Microsoft:News. Ars Technica. Archived from the original on April 27, 2012. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
^"Dictionary - MSN Encarta". 2011-08-17. Archived from the original on 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was...
digital encyclopedia accessible through the Internet. Examples include Encarta from 2000 to 2009, Wikipedia since 2001, the Encyclopædia Britannica since...
Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-89774-744-5. Important Notice: MSN Encarta to be Discontinued. MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on October 27, 2009. "Encyclopedia...
Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It included Encarta, as well as several student-exclusive tools such as additional Microsoft...
1982. Lass 2002. Trudgill & Hannah 2002, pp. 30–31. "Nigerian English". Encarta. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 17...
Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 8 January 2014. "Ukraine – Literature". MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2008. "Ukrainian...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pg. 492 "Arkansas". Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Archived from the original on 2009-10-28. Retrieved...
Laor Cartographic Collection. The National Library of Israel "Malta". MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2005...
Regions". Encarta. MSN. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2008. [dubious – discuss] "Rivers and Lakes". Encarta. MSN. Archived...
"internationalization"). According to Anne H. Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, it originally referred to phonewords – words spelled...
original on July 29, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2023. "Philippine Sea". Encarta. Archived from the original on August 20, 2009. on August 20, 2009). "Philippine...
author)". Britannica Online encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 February 2006.; MSN Encarta Encyclopedia article on Shakespeare. Archived from the original on 9 February...
S2CID 129463497. "Largest Drainage Basins in the World". WorldAtlas. 17 May 2018. Encarta Encyclopedia articles on Amazon River, Congo River, and Ganga Published...
Rowman & Littlefield, 1975, ISBN 0-87471-765-5. Ashanti Kingdom, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2009, Archived 31 October 2009. Gocking, Roger (2005)...
doi:10.2307/20029452. JSTOR 20029452. S2CID 157454140. "Europe". Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopaedia 2007. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009...
floods in the United States North Sea: Storm tides of the North Sea MSN Encarta Dictionary, Flood Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved...
original on 13 October 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011. "Nepal: Economy". MSN Encarta. p. 3. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. "Development Failure:...
Price Version Word Encarta Money Creativity Gaming Mapping Tools Imaging Tools Home Essentials 97 $109 Works 4.0 Word 97 Encarta 97 Encyclopedia Greetings...
Alaska Northwest Books. pp. 209–210. ISBN 0-88240-434-2. "Tree". Microsoft Encarta Reference Library 2003. Microsoft Corporation. 2002 [1993]. 60210-442-1635445-74407...
Shopping (affiliated with eBay, PriceGrabber and Shopping.com), and the Encarta encyclopedia with various levels of access to information. Since then,...
Rock/Post-Punk". AllMusic. Retrieved May 20, 2006. "Rock Music". Microsoft Encarta 2006 [CD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2005. Pareles, Jon (March...
University Press. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-521-61664-5. Retrieved 26 January 2018. Encarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "christendom. § 1.3 Scheidingen"...
bundled with personal computers as a cheaper alternative to the Encarta Suite. The Encarta Deluxe Suite / Reference Library versions also bundled Bookshelf...
July 16, 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2008. "13 Famous Valedictorians". MSN Encarta. 2008. Archived from the original on October 25, 2009. Retrieved June 2...
"Tegnspråk blir offisielt språk". NRK. 26 June 2008. "Norway's Culture", Encarta. Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved...
the original on 19 September 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2012. Pottery – MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 29 October 2009. "The pottery of the Yayoi...
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