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Microsoft Student is a discontinued application from Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It included Encarta , as well as several student-exclusive tools such as additional Microsoft Office templates (called Learning Essentials) and integration with other Microsoft applications, like Microsoft Word.
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]
Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas; Celestia; Google Earth - (proprietary license); Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator; KGeography; KStars; NASA World Wind - free software (NASA open source)
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 Math was originally released as a bundled part of Microsoft Student. It was then available as a standalone paid version starting with version 3.0. For version 4.0, it was released as a free downloadable product [4] and was called Microsoft Mathematics 4.0.
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 ...
Bookshelf 1.0 used a proprietary hypertext engine that Microsoft acquired when it bought the company Cytation in 1986. [5] Also used for Microsoft Stat Pack and Microsoft Small Business Consultant, it was a terminate-and-stay-resident program that ran alongside a dominant program, unbeknownst to the dominant program.
Encarta, digital multimedia encyclopedia by Microsoft; Encyclopædia Biblica: published in 1899; Encyclopædia Britannica: in print 1768–2010, online since 1994; see also the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica; Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite: available on DVD; Encyclopædia Iranica: history and contemporary topics related to ...