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''Microsoft Encarta'' was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. Originally available for sale on multiple CDs or a DVD, it was later also available on the World Wide Web via an annual subscription - although later many articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements.〔For the free service, one should use the URL http://search.msn.com/encarta/results.aspx (MSN Search Encarta) rather than http://encarta.msn.com (MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework). (Archived ) 2009-10-31.〕 By 2008, the complete English version, ''Encarta Premium'', consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive contents, 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. 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 ''Winkler Prins'' encyclopedia. In March 2009, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing both the ''Encarta'' disc and online versions. The MSN ''Encarta'' site was closed on October 31, 2009 in all countries except Japan, where it was closed on December 31, 2009.〔(Important Notice: MSN Encarta to be Discontinued ) (MSN Encarta). (Archived ) 2009-10-31.〕 Microsoft continued to operate the Encarta online dictionary at dictionary.msn.com until 2011. == History == After the successes of ''Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia'' (1989) and ''The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia'' (1992),〔Kister's Best Encyclopedias'',1994〕 Microsoft initiated ''Encarta'', under the internal codename "Gandalf",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with Jon Kertzer, director of Smithsonian Global Sound, for the Smithsonian Center for Folk Life and Cultural Heritage. ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chronology of personal computers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Smith blog post at MSDN.com )〕 by purchasing non-exclusive rights to the ''Funk & Wagnalls 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.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Encarta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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