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Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine 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]
This marked a significant expansion of freely available encyclopedia content from Encarta, which previously offered only a limited selection of articles for free. Until now, premium content from Encarta had been limited to subscribers, with Microsoft charging $4.95 per month or $29.95 annually for the service.
Microsoft Encarta, the second most popular English-language Internet encyclopedia, is being discontinued and taken offline on 31 October 2009.According to the updated FAQ, "the category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed.
One of the earliest and most well-known was Microsoft Encarta, [3] first introduced on CD-ROM and then also moving online along with other major reference works. In the dictionaries market, one of the more prolific brands was Merriam-Webster , which released CD-ROM and then online versions of English dictionaries, thesauri and foreign language ...
Last week, Microsoft's Encarta encyclopaedia announced that it was to allow users to make suggestions for article improvements (see archived story).It made the announcement with a nod to Wikipedia with the comment on the 'editing help' pages that Encarta is not like "open-content encyclopedias found elsewhere on the Web".
Install to a flash memory card for portability to other machines. Run on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. View the HTML for any wiki page. Search for any page by title using a Wikipedia-like Search box. Browse pages by alphabetical order using Special:AllPages. Find a word on a page. Access a history of viewed pages. Bookmark your favorite pages.
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The philosophy behind Wikipedia was that a community of volunteers could pool their knowledge and crosscheck their work to create a free encyclopedia. Due to Wikipedia’s openness, it is often the target of vandalism. Encarta is one of the first traditional encyclopedias to acknowledge Wikipedia in an article.