This story was written by Joseph Tartakoff. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will discontinue both its MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software, which have both been surpassed by rising ...

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 ...

Multimedia presentation is a major selling point of electronic encyclopaedias. With around 22,500 photographs and illustrations, 240 videos and animations, and 3000 sound and music clips to support ...

And so one format replaces another and a new era is officially baptised as Microsoft concedes to the power of the online, crowd-sourced, open encyclopedia format of Wikipedia by quietly announcing the ...

Within the last few days Microsoft quietly announced it is killing its Encarta encyclopedia, with the actual date of death October, 2009. What it hinted at, but didn’t quite say, was that Wikipedia ...

Yes, kids, there was a time when Wikipedia didn’t exist, and it looks like we’re going to be transported back to it on Wednesday, courtesy a 24-hour blackout of the English version of the site. That ...

*The lesson here? Moving from the "analog" version of encyclopedia to the "digital" version of an encyclopedia does not save you from decay and obsolescence. On the contrary. The legendary 1912 ...

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft'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, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia, which competes in an arena dominated by communally-crafted free Internet ...