The idea of packing an entire encyclopedia on a single compact disc has a magical, gee-whiz ring to it. And if the number of entries in the field is any indication, reference books on disc may well ...

Back in the days when he worked on print encyclopedias, Gary Alt and his colleagues would toil all year on the new edition and send it off to the printer. But months would then pass before readers saw ...

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 ...

Can you imagine (or remember) living in a world without Wikipedia? If you wanted to know the basic facts on a given topic, what would you do? You could get a physical encyclopedia, but after you did, ...

Microsoft 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 random ...

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 ...

Microsoft is preparing to shut down Encarta, the digital encyclopedia it first launched in 1993 as a direct competitor to old reference standbys like Encyclopedia Britannica. The encyclopedia, which ...

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 technology ...

It happens all the time: You read an entry in an encyclopedia or other reputable source and think, "That's not right" or "They forgot this!" Microsoft Corp.'s Encarta encyclopedia is testing a system ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will cease production of it encyclopedia software, Encarta, blaming changes in the way people seek and consume information for its demise. When Encarta was first ...

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