Microsoft Student is an application from Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It includes 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 includes Microsoft Math

Microsoft Math

Microsoft Mathematics is an educational program, designed for Microsoft Windows, that allows users to solve math and science problems...

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

Microsoft announced in March 2009 that they will cease to sell Microsoft Student and all editions of the Encarta

Encarta

Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. , the complete English version, Encarta Premium, consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive contents, timelines, maps and...

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.