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Encarta
Microsoft's digital encyclopedia. Launched in 1993 on CD-ROM, Encarta was initially based on the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia and later augmented with the inclusion of Collier's and New Merit Scholar's Encyclopedias. With approximately 60,000 articles, compared to Wikipedia's nearly three million, Encarta was discontinued in 2009.


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Enter Microsoft Student and Encarta Premium 2009 a productivity suite which includes English and foreign language dictionaries Spanish, French, German, and Italian a thesaurus a quotations and citation library assignment templates tutorials a graphing and equations calculator software and a Web Companion.
It announced in March the discontinuation of both versions of its Encarta encyclopedia.
Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia, which competes in an arena dominated by communally-crafted free Internet reference source Wikipedia.
 
 
 
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