Encarta was a wonderful product, too. First as a CD/ROM, Encarta was a very cool digital encyclopedia for the '90s. It incorporated the old Funk & Wagnall's and Collier's encyclopedias.

Grolier quickly issued a text-only version of the Academic American Encyclopedia for $200. ... Encarta '95, released in late 1994, was a big upgrade on the visual front, ...

Now that the two standout multimedia encyclopedias, Microsoft Encarta and Encyclopedia Britannica, have started to put their contents on the Internet for free consumption, will their CD-ROM ...

Microsoft's once-mighty multimedia encyclopaedia, Encarta, may merit no more than a footnote in histories of the early internet, but its demise contains an important lesson, says Jeremy Phillips ...

Encarta Collection 2003 conviendra ainsi parfaitement à un usage familial voire universitaire. Mais elle ne peut pour autant rivaliser avec l’Universalis 2003, en termes de richesse textuelle.

M icrosoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in 1985. Before the Internet allowed you to instantaneously look up every ...

Strange to read about Microsoft's plan to close Encarta today, if only because I can't think of the last time that Encarta even entered my mind, and as a blogger, I'm a particularly heavy user of ...

Part of me hopes Encarta will still be around after they officially close it, even if it's as an archive directory. There's no need to remove the entire site.

Microsoft Corp. said it plans to shut down its Encarta encyclopedia, in the wake of pressures that include the growth of Wikipedia and other free reference sites. The Redmond, Wash., company said ...

REDMOND, WASH. — Microsoft Corp.’s digital encyclopedia, Encarta, might have pushed its printed competitors off the shelves in some homes. Now Encarta itself has fallen victim to changes in ...

REDMOND — Microsoft says it is shutting down its online encyclopedia, Encarta, in October and will stop selling Encarta software by June.