Microsoft said it will cease its Encarta encyclopedia later this year, citing changes in the way customers seek and consume information. Most MSN Encarta Web sites will shut down on Oct. 31, the ...

Microsoft has announced that it will soon euthanize Encarta, the onetime encyclopedia-of-the-future that has lost much of its luster in the last decade. But the company really didn’t have much choice ...

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft has decided to discontinue their encyclopedia software, Encarta. Both the MSN Encarta reference Web sites as well as its Encarta software will be shut down.

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft says it is shutting down its online encyclopedia, Encarta, in October and will stop selling Encarta software by June. "People today seek and consume information in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Before the invention of the internets, information was a hot commodity. If you needed to acquire information on an unknown or obscure topic there were several options at your disposal: the public ...

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 ...

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 ...