<Tr> <Th> License </Th> <Td> Proprietary commercial software </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Formerly encarta.msn.com at the Wayback Machine (archived October 31, 2009) </Td> </Tr> <P> Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009 . Originally available for sale on 2 to 4 CD - ROMs or a DVD, it was also later available on the World Wide Web via an annual subscription--although later many articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements . By 2008, the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools . </P> <P> Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the Encarta trademark in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese . Localized versions contained contents licensed from national sources and more or less content than the full English version . For example, the Dutch version had content from the Dutch Winkler Prins encyclopedia . </P>

Msn encarta is an example of this kind of software