Microsoft encarta dictionary for windows 8

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Sign up. Thank you! The user interface allows viewing content with only images, videos, sounds, animations, degree views, virtual tours, charts and tables or only interactivities. Encarta and later have Map Treks which are tours of geographic features and concepts. Microsoft had a separate product known as Encarta Africana which was an encyclopedia of black history and culture.

It was integrated into the standard Encarta Reference suite starting with the version. Version also introduced the ability to install the entire encyclopedia locally to the hard disk drive to prevent frequent swapping of discs. Encarta incorporated literature guides and book summaries, foreign language translation dictionaries, a Homework Center and Chart Maker.

Encarta's Visual Browser , available since the version, presents a user with a list of related topics making them more discoverable. A collection of 32 Discovery Channel videos have also since been added.

Encarta introduced another program called Encarta Kids aimed at children to make learning fun. There is also a Geography Quiz and several other games and quizzes, some quizzes also in Encarta Kids.

For years, Encarta came in three primary software editions: Basic, Premium, and Reference Library price and features in that order. Beginning with Encarta , however, when Websters Multimedia took over its maintenance, Encarta became a feature of Microsoft Student as the premier Microsoft educational software program.

Although it is possible to purchase only the Encarta encyclopedia separately, Microsoft Student bundles together Encarta Premium with Microsoft Math a graphing calculator program and Learning Essentials , which provides templates for Microsoft Office. In addition, the Reference Library was discontinued, absorbed into a newer, more comprehensive Premium package. Encarta's user interface is shared with Microsoft Student, and has been streamlined to reduce clutter with only a Search box which returns relevant results; however it is no longer possible to simply browse all the encyclopedia articles alphabetically.

The dynamic maps are generated with the same engine that powered Microsoft MapPoint software. The map is a virtual globe that one can freely rotate and magnify to any location down to major streets for big cities. The globe has multiple surfaces displaying political boundaries, physical landmarks, historical maps and statistical information. One can selectively display statistical values on the globe surface or in a tabular form, different sized cities, various geological or man-made features and reference lines in a map.

The maps contain hyperlinks to related articles "Map Trek" and also supports a "Dynamic Sensor" that provides the latitude , longitude , place name , population and local time for any point on the globe.

Encarta also generates a visible-light moon atlas with names of major craters and hyperlinks. However, it does not include a planetarium , but instead has a small interactive constellation -only map.

In addition to database generated maps, many other illustrative maps in Encarta "Historical Maps" are drawn by artists. Some more advanced maps are interactive : for example, the large African map for Africana can display information such as political boundaries or the distribution of African flora.

However, this was redundant. Bookshelf was discontinued in , and in later Encarta editions Encarta Suite and onwards , Bookshelf was replaced with a dedicated Encarta Dictionary, a superset of the printed edition. There was some controversy over the decision, since the dictionary lacks the other books provided in Bookshelf which many found to be a useful reference, such as Columbia Dictionary of Quotations replaced with a quotations section in Encarta that links to relevant articles and people and an Internet Directory although now a moot point since many of the sites listed in offline directories aren't around anymore.

Before the emergence of the world wide web for information browsing, Microsoft recognized the importance of having an engine that supported a multimedia markup language , full text search, and extensibility using software objects.

The hypertext display, hyperlinking and search software was created by a team of CD-ROM Division developers in the late s who designed it as a generalized engine for uses as diverse as interactive help , document management systems and as ambitious as a multimedia encyclopedia.

Encarta was able to use various Microsoft technologies because it was extensible with software components for displaying unique types of multimedia information.

For example, a snap in map engine is adapted from its MapPoint software. More information on the hypertext and search engine used by Encarta may be found in the Microsoft Bookshelf article.

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