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In the late 1990s, Microsoft bought Collier's Encyclopedia and New Merit Scholar's Encyclopedia from Macmillan and incorporated them into Encarta. at below book value in 1996 when the print sales could no longer compete with Encarta and the Microsoft distribution channel which focused on bundling copies with new computer systems. Microsoft had originally approached Encyclopædia Britannica, the gold standard of encyclopedias for over a century, in the 1980s, but it declined, believing its print media sales would be hurt however, the Benton Foundation was forced to sell Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (Funk & Wagnalls continued to publish revised editions for several years independently of Encarta, but then ceased printing in the late 1990s.) Previously having been referred to by the codename "Gandalf," the name Encarta was created for Microsoft by an advertising agency. Microsoft initiated Encarta by purchasing non-exclusive rights to the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, incorporating it into its first edition in 1993. Microsoft continued to operate the Encarta online dictionary at until 2011.Īfter the successes of Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia (1989) and The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (1992), The MSN Encarta site was closed on Octoin all countries except Japan, where it was closed on December 31, 2009.
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In March 2009, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing the Encarta disc and online versions. For example, the Dutch version had content from the Dutch Winkler Prins encyclopedia.
#ENCARTA 2011 FULL#
Localized versions may contain contents licensed from available national sources and may contain more or less content than the full English version. Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.
#ENCARTA 2011 FREE#
Many articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements. It was available on the World Wide Web by annual subscription or by purchase on DVD or multiple CDs.
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In 2008, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive contents, timelines, maps & atlas and homework tools. Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by the Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009.