We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. Wikipedia killed Encarta. Encarta was the early digital encyclopedia. It began life as CD/ROM and increasingly went online. What it never did was truly ...

Microsoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in ...

Having failed to acquire the rights to Encyclopaedia Britannica or the World Book Encyclopedia, Encarta was released in early 1993, based on the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia, for the same price as ...

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.

With the Great Computer Store Rush of 1994 at a close, it is clear that the era of interactive multimedia computing is solidly upon us. And so it is time to talk about CD-ROM encyclopedias, the ...

With around 22,500 photographs and illustrations, 240 videos and animations, and 3000 sound and music clips to support its 100,000 articles and entries, Microsoft’s Encarta Premium Suite 2003 ...

Microsoft Corp.'s Encarta multimedia encyclopedia on CD-ROM has an answer to that question. Rather, two answers. Consult the U.S., United Kingdom or German editions of Encarta and you find the ...

REDMOND, Wash., June 27, 2002 — Building on its ranking as the No. 1 best-selling encyclopedia brand,* Microsoft Corp. today launched Encarta® Reference Library 2003, offering innovative homework ...

That’s where Microsoft’s Encarta comes in. Helen Fein, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, says the online encyclopedia almost helped deny the genocide. In 1996 ...

If you are a fortunate child of the mid-90s you'll have experience with Encarta, the interactive CD-based encyclopedia from Microsoft. My son being taught how to research a subject (penguins ...