Microsoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in 1985. Before the Internet allowed you to instantaneously look up every ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2005. This program is Microsoft's Encyclopedia application that features thousands of articles, images and videos.

Those Microsoft Multimedia offerings included "Magic School Bus," "Microsoft Dogs," and the "Microsoft Encarta" encyclopedia. In hindsight, they seem like oddities: Why would Microsoft ...