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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]
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 Multimedia Viewer or simply Viewer was a multimedia authoring tool for Windows built upon WinHelp online help format. The toolkit was used to develop Microsoft's early Windows CD-ROM reference titles like Encarta, Cinemania and Bookshelf, as well as for a number of third-party multimedia titles for Windows 3.1 like the CD-ROM edition of The Merck Manual.
Microsoft Encarta: 1993–2009 US$99.95/CAD$139.95 Microsoft Encarta Africana 1999-2001 (Later merged into Encarta) Microsoft Bookshelf: 1987, 1992, 1994-2000 US$69.95/CAD$99.95 Microsoft Cinemania: 1994-1997 US$59.95/CAD$79.95 Microsoft Automap Streets, Streets Plus (then Expedia Streets & Microsoft Streets & Trips) 1995-2013
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.
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.
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 ...
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.