Encarta, Microsoft’s multimedia encyclopedia, is now in its lTC fifth year – and the first year in which the offering spans two CD-ROMs. This inability to fit everything on one CD is on… ...

Encarta Turns Five Years Old. 12/01/97; Encarta Encyclopedia 98 Grades: All Platform: Windows 95/NT, Macintosh. Encarta Turns Five Years Old. Since the launch of Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia in ...

The Encarta Reference Suite 2001 seven-disc CD-ROM set has an estimated retail price** of $74.95 (U.S.) before a $10.00 (U.S.) mail-in rebate. It runs on the Microsoft Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows ...

The original Encarta Reference Suite 98 included 5 CDs: 3 for the Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition, 1 for the Encarta Virtual Globe, which included 3D simulated flights above famous areas; ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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'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 ...