*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 ...

Woe: Microsoft has officially pulled the plug on Encarta, a reference work that, for many of us, was probably more formative than anyone would like to admit. Yes, please join with me in admitting that ...

Microsoft will discontinue publication of its MSN Encarta online reference site and related software products later this year, according to <a href="http://encarta ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A post on Microsoft's Encarta website notes that the Encarta website, as well as the software products bearing the Encarta name, are being discontinued. The posting was first noticed by Ars Technica.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you went to grade school in the nineties like I did, you might remember Microsoft's educational software titles published on CD-ROM. Those Microsoft Multimedia offerings included "Magic School Bus, ...