Encarta Encyclopedia Free Software -

At its 2008 peak, contained over 62,000 articles and a massive library of multimedia assets.

Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft from . While it was primarily a paid commercial product, limited free versions existed through the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia online and ad-supported web articles before its eventual discontinuation. Today, the software is considered abandonware and is often found for free on archival sites like Internet Archive . Historical Overview and Development Encarta Encyclopedia Free Software

: Famous for the MindMaze trivia game, where players explored a medieval castle by answering encyclopedia-based questions. At its 2008 peak, contained over 62,000 articles

Encarta was born from Microsoft's internal project in the late 1980s. After being rejected by Encyclopædia Britannica , Microsoft licensed text from Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia for its initial 1993 release. Today, the software is considered abandonware and is

: Starting in 2000, a subset of the full encyclopedia was available for free online, supported by advertisements.