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 ...

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 ...

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. To ...

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 ...

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Microsoft Encarta, the encyclopedia-on-a-disc (and later website), is going away in October of this year. In many ways, it was like training wheels for kids learning how to research topics on their ...