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Citing the advent of free online reference sources, Microsoft discontinued Encarta, which then consisted of more than 60,000 articles, at the end of 2009. Only the free Encarta dictionary remained online.
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Encarta world English dictionary. Publication date. 1999. Topics. English language -- Dictionaries, English language. Publisher. London : Bloomsbury. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
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Nearing the end of 1993, Microsoft Encarta pricing was reduced to $99 for the holiday season. By the end of the year, it had become the best-selling CD encyclopedia with 350,000 copies. The price was never raised again, and the 1994 Edition was quickly released. But what made the early versions of Encarta more attractive than a printed encyclopedia...
At first, it looked like the prevalence of the internet would make Encarta even more relevant. Encarta 97 offered monthly updates for a year to those willing to pay. The 2 CD Deluxe edition included twice as much multimedia content (including 360-degree images), and could offer 5,000 web links as it got the updates for no extra cost. The Encarta Vi...
The following year, the English edition of Wikipedia surpassed Encarta in number of articles, reaching 100,000 in January 2003. The free encyclopedia kept doubling its size the following 4 years, growing to around 1.5 million articles by 2006 thanks to its seemingly unlimited manpower (and much lower quality standards). Drawbacks like the lack of c...
Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia 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.
- English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese
- Microsoft Windows
The Encarta Dictionary (online college dictionary) is a great free resource for people with an advanced level of English. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses. It is a college dictionary. Now, what does this mean? What is a College Dictionary?
Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009.