I attached a map to the email which was sent to my foreign friend. He said " The map of your area available to me is in Encarta " .
I can't understand it clearly. Encarta means what?
2006-08-02 19:21:22 · 6 answers · asked by photosynthesis 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published and updated frequently by Microsoft Corporation. As of 2005, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consists of more than 68,000 articles, numerous images and movies, and homework tools, and is available on the World Wide Web by yearly subscription or by purchase on multiple CD-ROMs or DVD-ROM. Many articles can also be viewed online for free, a service supported by advertisements.[1]
Microsoft publishes similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Japanese. Localized versions may contain contents licensed from available national sources and may contain more or less content than the full English version. For example, the Dutch version has content from the Dutch Winkler Prins encyclopedia.
2006-08-02 20:14:28 · answer #1 · answered by JJ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Encarta online encyclopedia.
http://encarta.msn.com/
2006-08-02 19:25:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft Encarta used to be a virtual multimedia encyclopedia released through Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. It additionally approach a sort of encyclopedia that's produced simplest on a CD-ROM, and isn't to be had as a broadcast booklet.
2016-08-28 13:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Encarta means "it bans" in Spanish.
2006-08-02 19:45:47 · answer #4 · answered by zaradulce02 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta
2006-08-02 19:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by ★Fetal☆ ★And ☆ ★Weeping☆ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Encarta is an online information source, combination dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopaedia.
2006-08-03 03:09:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋