I always love encyclopedias! My late grandparents used to have them as a book format, but there were no computers back then in fact, I wasn’t even born yet! Fast forward to the 80s, and CD-ROM was born! CD-ROM contained originally 650 MB of data, but in the early 90s, that limit was bumped up to 700 MB of data, the same timeframe when Microsoft started developing an encyclopedia for Microsoft Windows-based machines, and that resulted in Encarta! Encyclopedia article featuring the personal computer. Interactivity featuring languages of the world. But the Macintosh versions 95 and 97 can be found on the Macintosh Garden. Microsoft is no longer supporting Encarta due to Wikipedia having more than a million articles written by a community however, if you want an offline encyclopedia for your Windows computer, most of the versions can be found on the Internet Archive and WinWorldPC. Early versions are released on CD-ROM, while the current versions are both released on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM.

I had no problems running Encarta Premium 2009 on my HP Pavilion a6010n running Windows 10 (32-bit). The latest version is called Encarta Premium 2009, which is what I’ll be using in this blog post.

Microsoft’s Encarta is a multimedia encyclopedia computer software that ran from 1993 to 2009 for Microsoft Windows 3.1 up to Windows 10 and for Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2.2 (68030 and PowerPC).

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