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 ...

The best thing I liked about the Windows Live Photo Gallery app was that it let you tag photos to easily find them. For instance, you could tag photos taken at a particular destination with a specific ...

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 ...

But why? I'll admit now that Encarta hasn't always been at the forefront of my mind when researching something; nor has it been a major part of my studies, life in general or search results on Google.

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is to exit its Encarta encyclopedia business later this year after losing ground over the years to freely available reference material on the Internet on web sites like ...

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 ...