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 ...

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 ...

Once the bedrock of Microsoft's home product offerings, the Encarta encyclopedia has been buried by the Web. The company cites changes in how people seek and consume information online as the impetus ...

For those users with Encarta on MSN Explorer, the October 31 kill date still applies. On the microsoft.public.encarta newsgroups, at least one user seems to have predicted this was coming.

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 ...

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 ...

Encarta, a PC-based encyclopedia that I'd used at school, would, in all fairness to 12-year-old me, be very useful, but I was absolutely using my education as a Trojan horse. I ...

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 ...

Microsoft Encarta was a staple in school libraries and home computers for much of the late '90s and early 2000s. So why did Microsoft decide to pull the plug?