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Microsoft encarta sound full#
Plus - full text base (13.9 million words in the 2001 edition), fewer multimedia elements, no atlas discontinued with the 2002 edition.Ī distinction was also made between CD and DVD variants.
Microsoft encarta sound update#
Update - discounted upgrade for owners of a previous version.Standard - slimmed down version with a reduced text base (around 37,300 articles in the 2001 edition between 20% and 50% less text), fewer multimedia elements and a very simple atlas.Professional - the most extensive variant over 50,000 articles with around 19 million words (2004 edition), the most extensive additions to multimedia elements and a detailed atlas in the 2002 edition, the professional version had 16.5 million words.The German-language edition appeared in three versions: German edition of the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2 German edition of the Microsoft Encarta EncyclopediaĪfter the encyclopedia had initially been developed under the code name Gandalf, Microsoft had the name Encarta created by order of an advertising agency.For example, the Dutch version contained texts from the Winkler-Prins encyclopedia, while Encarta Africana focused on Afro-American culture. 2009 Microsoft discontinued all Encarta offers.Įncarta appeared worldwide in different language versions the contents were edited by local editorial offices and differed in their priorities and assessments. After all longer articles, the names and sometimes the qualifications of the authors were listed. Many articles were based on those of the former Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia and Collier's Encyclopedia, whose online rights Microsoft had acquired in 1998. There were 50,000 articles with a total of almost 20 million words printed out, this should correspond to a twenty-volume lexicon. The CD / DVD edition was reprinted annually and was partially updated via the Internet. It was available on CD-ROM and DVD as well as with limited access on the World Wide Web. Encarta was the name of an electronic, multimedia encyclopedia that was published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009.