Nearing the end of 1993, Microsoft Encarta pricing was reduced to $99 for the holiday season. By the end of the year, it had become the best-selling CD encyclopedia with 350,000 copies.

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 ...

Valentine's Day! Ahhhhhhh, Valentine's Day. Microsoft Encarta 99 defines Valentine's Day as "naked hugging on candy mountain," a definition codified by St. Valentine himself (inventor of fucking ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...