2009 / August 2008; 9 years ago ( 2008-08) Website at the (archived October 31, 2009) Microsoft Encarta was a published by from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on or, it was also later available on the World Wide Web via an annual subscription – although later many articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements. By 2008, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools. Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in various languages, including,,,,, and. Localized versions contained contents licensed from national sources and more or less content than the full English version. For example, the Dutch version had content from the Dutch encyclopedia. In March 2009, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing both the Encarta disc and online versions. The Encarta site was closed on October 31, 2009 in all countries except, where it was closed on December 31, 2009. Microsoft continued to operate the Encarta online dictionary at dictionary.msn.com until 2011. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] After the successes of (1989) and (1992), Microsoft initiated Encarta, under the internal codename 'Gandalf', by purchasing non-exclusive to the Encyclopedia, incorporating it into its first edition in 1993. (Funk & Wagnalls continued to publish revised editions for several years independently of Encarta, but then ceased printing in the late 1990s.) Launch [ ] The name Encarta was created for Microsoft by an advertising agency and launched in 1993 as a $395 product, although it soon dropped to $99, and was often into the price of a new computer purchase.
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