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Existing MSN Encarta Premium (part of MSN Premium) subscribers were refunded. [4] The demise of Encarta was widely attributed to competition from the free and user-generated Wikipedia, [21] [22] [23] which grew to be larger than Encarta from its early beginnings in 2001 [24] due to the popularization by web search services like Google. [16]
Bookshelf 1.0 used a proprietary hypertext engine that Microsoft acquired when it bought the company Cytation in 1986. [5] Also used for Microsoft Stat Pack and Microsoft Small Business Consultant, it was a terminate-and-stay-resident program that ran alongside a dominant program, unbeknownst to the dominant program.
Use of Encarta for free through MSN Search is limited, however, to two hours, as shown by a clock counting down the time while you view the page. And if this is a deliberate strategy to compete with Wikipedia, it may not have the same effect as Microsoft's efforts against commercial competitors, since Wikipedia is also given away free.
Atlas of Mexico, 1975; The Prentice Hall American World Atlas, 1984. National Geographic Atlas of the World, 1992. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000. MSN Encarta World Atlas, 2008 "GEONet Names Server". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency GEOnet Names Server
Microsoft Student is a discontinued application from Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It included Encarta, as well as several student-exclusive tools such as additional Microsoft Office templates (called Learning Essentials) and integration with other Microsoft applications, like Microsoft Word.
1999-2001 (Later merged into Encarta) Microsoft Bookshelf: 1987, 1992, 1994-2000 US$69.95/CAD$99.95 Microsoft Cinemania: 1994-1997 US$59.95/CAD$79.95 Microsoft Automap Streets, Streets Plus (then Expedia Streets & Microsoft Streets & Trips) 1995-2013 Microsoft Automap Road Atlas (then Expedia Trip Planner & Microsoft Streets & Trips) 1995-2013
Microsoft Dangerous Creatures is an educational PC program by Microsoft Home.It was designed for Windows 3.1 and first published in August 1994. It was included in the "Microsoft Home bundle pack" along with 'Encarta', 'Works Multimedia', Money and 'Arcade & Best of Windows Entertainment Pack'.
Biafra independent state borders reference maps: UN, Matthew White, Otvaga2004, Travel-Image (originally a CIA map ?), Biafraland and MSN Encarta; Author: Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) Permission (Reusing this file)