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Encarta also included a trivia game called "MindMaze" [31] (accessible through Ctrl+Z) [32] in which the player explores a castle by answering questions whose answers can be found in the encyclopedia's articles. [33] There was also a "Geography Quiz" and several other games and quizzes, some quizzes also in Encarta Kids. [citation needed]
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.
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)
Microsoft Kids logo. The Microsoft Kids division produced educational software aimed at children in 1993. Their products feature a purple-skinned character named McZee who wears wacky attire and leads children through the fictional town of Imaginopolis, where each building or room is a unique interface to a different part of the software.
Microsoft Dangerous Creatures is an educational PC program by Microsoft Home.It was designed for Windows 3.1 and first published in August 1994. It was included in the "Microsoft Home bundle pack" along with 'Encarta', 'Works Multimedia', Money and 'Arcade & Best of Windows Entertainment Pack'.
Microsoft's Encarta, launched in 1993, was a landmark example as it had no printed equivalent. Articles were supplemented with video and audio files as well as numerous high-quality images. After sixteen years, Microsoft discontinued the Encarta line of products in 2009. [47]
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.
The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Slightly larger than a college dictionary, it is similar in appearance and scope to the American Heritage Dictionary , which Soukhanov previously edited.