Encarta

Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia by Microsoft. There was a more complete version called Encarta Premium made in 2008. It had more than 62,000 articles Encarta 2009 Information and many photographs and illustrations. There was also music clips, videos, maps and timelines with some activity games. It also included an atlas,  and homework tools. It was available on the internet if you pay a yearly fee, or to buy on DVD-ROM, or CD-ROMs. Many articles could also be read online free of charge, a service which is paid for by advertisements.For the free service, one should use the URL http://search.msn.com/encarta/results.aspx  (MSN Search Encarta) rather than http://encarta.msn.com  (MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework)

Microsoft made similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in several different European languages and in Japanese.

In 2009, Encarta was discontinued with the rise in popularity of Google and online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia.

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