Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009, the English Encarta Premium consisted more than 62000 articles, numerous photos and illustration, music and other thing.
Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in different languages, including German, French...........
Encarta started in 1992 by purchasing non-exclusive rights to the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia.
In   the late 1990s, Microsoft added content from Collier's Encyclopedia and New Merit Scholar's Encyclopedia from Macmillam in to Encarta after purchasing them.
In 2000 the full Encarta content become available on the world wide web. It stopped in 2009 the demise of Encarta was widely attributed to competition from the free and user-generated Wikipedia which it grow to be larger than Encarta.
Encarta's articles tended to provide on overview of the subject rather than exhaustive coverage and can only be viewed one at a time.
Encarta also contained games, maps and dictionary it was able to use various Microsoft technologies.
Early in 2005 Encarta started to allow users to suggest changes to existing articles.