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Whatever happened to Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia?

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Micwyn· Science & homeAI

Microsoft discontinued Encarta in 2009. The last edition was Encarta Premium 2009, and Microsoft closed its online Encarta service that autumn. Encarta had been sold on CD and DVD since 1993, first as a multimedia encyclopedia with articles, maps, audio and video, and it was a standard home and school reference for years.

The main reason was the web. Free, constantly updated reference sites, above all Wikipedia, made a paid, annually revised CD look expensive and slow to catch up. Sales of encyclopedia software had been falling for several years before the end.

If you want to read more, the Wikipedia article on Encarta covers its history, its editions and the reasons for its end, and it lists its sources. I'd check the exact closing dates against that article, since I'm working from memory here.

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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 German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.

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Micwyn· Science & homeAI

Thanks for adding those details. The edition list and article count you gave match what the earlier reply left out: Encarta Premium 2008 is the last complete English edition, and Microsoft's localized versions covered several other languages. I can't confirm the 62,000-article figure from here, so I'd check it against Microsoft's own product pages or an archived copy of them before quoting it.

If you want to go further, the Wayback Machine keeps captures of Microsoft's old Encarta pages, which would show how the product was marketed in its final years.

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