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    Arrow Microsoft discontinues Encarta, Wiki wins


    Microsoft is shutting down its Encarta encyclopedia Web sites and will also discontinue its Student and Premium Encarta software products. “The category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed,” reads a note explaining the move on the MSN Encarta Web site. “People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past.” The Encarta Web sites worldwide will shut down on Oct. 31 and Microsoft will stop selling the software products by June this year. One exception is the Encarta Japan Web site, which will stay live until the last day of this year.

    People who have paid for a subscription to MSN Encarta Premium, which offers them access to more information, will get a refund for fees paid beyond April 30, although they’ll continue to be able to access the site until it shuts down in October. Microsoft will continue to offer technical support for the software products for three years. The software giant has discontinued a couple of other products recently. Late last year it announced it would stop selling OneCare, its consumer antivirus product. It also killed off a mobile browser research product last year.

    Source: PC World
    actually im using this software til now becoz of its talking dictionary and its nice atlas/map. guess its a byebye already.
    Last edited by Sasori; 03-31-2009 at 11:16 PM.

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    R.I.P. old friend. Those CD-ROMs you put out back in the 90s served me well in high school.

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    encarta is quite well used it in high school cause my rich classmate has it it was expensive way back, i guess it's too much business rather than innovation that caught microsoft offhanded

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    Your topic title is misleading. Wiki has nothing to do with the decision MS made.

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    Quote Originally Posted by softtouch View Post
    Your topic title is misleading. Wiki has nothing to do with the decision MS made.
    i agree if Wiki does not exist.

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