Downloading takes just under 10 minutes with a l4,400-baud modem. Encarta 96 users can download this file through Microsoft's home page on the World Wide Web or through the Company's new Microsoft Network service. Once a month, Microsoft is posting a package of about 35 articles online, covering subjects such as new discoveries in science and peace treaties in the Middle East.

Retained from 1995 are a number of user-friendly features for browsing, including an atlas, time line, and trivia quiz game called Mind Maze.Īn impressive new feature entitled “Yearbook Builder” introduces an online component. The contents have been expanded slightly from last year there are now 26,000 articles, 8,000 photos, 900 maps, 9-1/2 hours of audio clips, and 1-1/2 hours of video clips and animations.

Microsoft's Encarta 96 Encyclopedia has been released with an interesting blend of the high storage capacity of CD-ROM and the immediacy of online information.Įncarta 96 has the same user interface as the 1995 edition, full of pull-down menus and buttons to trigger various search functions.

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