Microsoft ends Encarta encyclopaedia service

by Staff, Brand Republic 31-Mar-09, 09:05

LONDON - Microsoft is ending Encarta, the digital encyclopaedia it launched in 1993 as an alternative to larger reference texts, as Wikipedia and search engines have rendered the service obsolete.

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Encarta: finishing in October

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