Microsoft Bookshelf

Microsoft Bookshelf was a collection of writing aids for IBM-compatible computers that have been devised by the manufacturer Microsoft on a CD -ROM. The product contained numerous reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and collections of quotations and the CD should apply as at the time new storage medium for the computer.

History

The company Cytation was founded in 1984 and was one of the first companies to published applications on CD- ROM. In January 1986, the company was bought by Microsoft, the same year the new medium was officially presented at a conference. In September, in 1987 the first version of Microsoft Bookshelf for MS- DOS was veföffentlicht. The program has been ported to Windows 1991. The last version was Bookshelf 2000, after which the product has been discontinued and replaced with Microsoft Encarta.

Content

The product was available in different language versions, each with locally adapted compilation.

Microsoft Bookshelf contained in the version in 1992 for the United States include the following works:

  • Roget 's Thesaurus
  • American Heritage Dictionary
  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts
  • The Chicago Manual of Style
  • A postal code book of the United States of America

In the course of time, single copies of the books have been updated or replaced with completely different, more modern works. From the mid- 1990s, before the wedding of the search engines, even a web directory was included as an aid for online research.

CD-ROM MS-DOS The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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