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Yes. In the 1990s and 2000s Microsoft sold encyclopedia software called Encarta:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

I remember some consumer PCs being bundled with Encarta in the 1990s and 2000s.

I also remember Grolier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolier) publishing CD-ROM encyclopedias in the 1990s.




The Internet Archive has copies of Encarta: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Encarta%22


This Facebook bot posts an Encarta95 entry every so often

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