Microsoft Student was an application from Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It included Microsoft Encarta Premium, as well as several student-exclusive tools such as additional Microsoft Office templates and integration with other Microsoft applications, like Microsoft Word. An example of that is data citations, Encarta dictionary and research Encarta features, which are available in a toolbar in Word.

The product also included Microsoft Math, language and literature resources, and research tools (such as access to an online version of Microsoft Encarta). Student 2006 was the first version of the product and a new version was produced by Microsoft every year until 2009.

Microsoft announced in March 2009 that they will cease to sell Microsoft Student and all editions of the Encarta encyclopedia by June 2009, citing changes in the way people seek information and in the traditional encyclopedia and reference material market as the key reasons behind the termination. Encarta's closing is widely attributed to competition from the larger online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft is one of the largest software corporations in the world.

Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified into the video game industry with the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles and the consumer electronics and digital services market MSN, the Zune and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees (Forbes 400 list revealed that in March 2011 both Jon Shipley and Nathan Myhrvold lost their billionaire status). In May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications for $8.5 billion.

Mohamed Salah Ghaly (born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian Footballer who plays for Swiss football club FC Basel. He is left footed.

After the Port Said Stadium disaster early February 2012, the Egyptian Premier League was stopped and all subsequent matches of the 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League were immediately postponed. On 10 March 2012, the Egyptian Football Association announced their decision to cancel the remainder of the season. Since then Salah has played solely for the Egypt national under-23 football team. The team's main objectives were to qualify and play at the All-Africa Games and Olympic Games, and were achieved with effective displays from Salah.

On 10 April 2012, it was announced that he signed for Swiss football club FC Basel. The contract will run for four years starting from 15 June 2012.