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Encarta was offered in a bundled reference suite edition, which included a reference library and an interactive atlas, beginning in 1997; it also remained available as a stand-alone product. In 1998 Microsoft purchased the copyrights to Collier’s electronic encyclopaedia and the New Merit Scholar’s Encyclopedia and incorporated that ...
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Encarta 2000 and later had "Map Treks", which were tours of geographic features and concepts. Microsoft also had for a brief period a separate product known as Encarta Africana which was an encyclopedia of black history and culture. Starting with the 2001 version, it was integrated into the main Encarta Reference Suite.
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Nov 18, 2015 · For its part, the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia, easily the most successful of the Microsoft multimedia projects, expanded into a web version in 2000, before being discontinued entirely in 2009 ...
Aug 10, 2000 · This year’s suite includes updated and enhanced versions of Encarta’s deluxe encyclopedia, world atlas and dictionary plus one free* year of Encarta Online Deluxe. The added inclusion of Encarta Africana Third Edition makes Encarta Reference Suite 2001 the ideal reference tool for anyone looking to expand their knowledge of a given subject.
Sep 25, 2001 · Combining leading multimedia reference information with the best of the Internet, Encarta delivers a fun and easy-to-use reference resource for home or school. New to Encarta Reference Library 2002 is a redesigned start page that provides students with a “one-stop” search through all the content-rich resources of Encarta — Encarta ...
Aug 24, 1999 · Free** Encarta Online Deluxe 2000, Yearbook and Educator Materials . With Encarta Reference Suite comes free* access to Encarta Online Deluxe, the premium online version of the encyclopedia, through Dec. 31, 2000. Encarta Online Deluxe is available any time, on any computer with Internet access.
Mar 30, 2009 · By Noam Cohen. March 30, 2009 10:23 pm. Microsoft delivered the coup de grâce Monday to its dying Encarta encyclopedia, acknowledging what everyone else realized long ago: it just couldn’t compete with Wikipedia, a free, collaborative project that has become the leading encyclopedia on the Web. In January, Wikipedia got 97 percent of the ...
