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Encarta will go free online within six to 12 months
News Microsoft's encyclopaedia, Encarta, will be available free online within the next six to 12 months according to Microsoft's reference product manager Jonathan Hulse. According to Hulse, a UK online version of Encarta will be launched "within six to...
[November 1, 1999, 12:48]
Encarta goes free online
News Responding to increased online competition, Microsoft is to post a free version of its Encarta World English dictionary online. In addition to the dictionary, Encarta will provide integrated access to the Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words...
[March 21, 2000, 10:11]
Microsoft decides to shelve Encarta
News Microsoft has confirmed that it is moving out of the encyclopaedia business, ending its long-standing Encarta product. As noted by Ars Technica, the software maker says it will discontinue all its online Encarta products by October, with the...
[April 1, 2009, 17:16]
Encarta Demise
Talkback It's years since I have put the Encarta DVD into my computer (years ago, I used to leave it in the computer, I even had a dedicated slot loading drive for it on my PC to avoid scratching it! I'll never forget the Encarta Atlas, to this day, I haven...
[May 22, 2009, 10:59]
Nuggets: Forget movies on DVD - check out Encarta 99
News The main use for DVD up to now has been films but Microsoft has bucked this trend, launching a DVD version of its enormously successful Encarta Reference Suite 99. The team responsible for Encarta have taken full advantage of the infinitely more...
[March 30, 1999, 13:11]
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 98 Patch Research Organizer
Downloads When you use the Research Organizer, you may receive the following error message: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.
[October 25, 1999, 8:00]
£9.6m of software stolen from MS Scottish factory
News The armed gang got away with over 100,000 CDs including copies of Encarta, Windows 95 and Office 97. If anybody is offered cheap UK versions of Encarta without documentation, they are buying stolen goods," said Richard Teversham, Microsoft's...
[November 21, 1997, 16:12]
US Report: Microsoft helps huge Africa reference project
News Microsoft Encarta Africana, to be released on CD-ROM in February, will catalogue the historical and cultural achievements of Africa and people of African descent from early prehistoric times to the present.
[July 31, 1998, 9:08]
Wikipedia review
Reviews After all, you won't find pictures of Carhenge (a Stonehenge-like structure made out of sedans) or a biography of Captain Kirk (Starfleet serial number SC 937-0176 CEC), in Encyclopedia Britannica or Encarta.
[October 28, 2005, 15:40]
Nuggets: African culture and the mouse that sinks
News The latest release from Microsoft's Encarta product line is the Africana CD-ROM. The Encarta Africana is available now for £69.99, with a £20 cashback rebate available until the end of the year. Nuggets is a daily update on the latest software and...
[January 28, 1999, 17:30]
MSN Search beta review
Reviews The beta version of MSN Search offers tighter integration with other Microsoft properties, drawing results from Encarta and MSN Music. In addition to standard Web search results, MSN Search will also query Microsoft Encarta and MSN Music databases.
[November 12, 2004, 10:45]
MSN Search beta released
News MSN Music and Encarta, or its encyclopaedia service, will also play a role in the new search site. San Francisco population, it will display an answer from Encarta. Microsoft on Thursday launched a beta version of its Web search technology, as it...
[November 11, 2004, 7:47]
MSN search launched
News While Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Google and smaller sites like Answers.com have sought to fill in search requests with answers to questions on the weather, entertainment and package tracking, MSN believes it can do one better with its encyclopaedia...
[February 1, 2005, 10:50]
10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
Talkback That may be news to Merriam-Webster, American Heritage and Encarta. The author, Jody Gilbert, states that "impact is not a verb. They all list impact as a verb.
[June 7, 2006, 16:42]
Homework Assistant
Downloads The HomeworkAssistant widget takes a user entered search term and submits it to the Library of Congress, Answers.com, Nature.com, MSN Encarta, Google Scholar, and National Geographic search sites. The resulting notebook contains a "top results...
[July 20, 2006, 8:00]
interesting..
Talkback In the old days Microsoft may have charged you for something like this, i remember having buy encarta before wikipedia came and blew it out Though i'd recommend they go a step further and put live cameras all across the universe!
[May 16, 2008, 16:06]
WinTalks
Downloads Speaking clock, time, date, talking notebook; speaking calculator; retrieving and speaking of information in the Encarta encyclopedia; speaking e-mails; adjustable voice; uses SAPI 4.0 and SAPI 5.0 voices.
[February 7, 2007, 18:52]
The ABC of open source in schools
Leader But Becta has managed this feat with a report that is unlikely to send staff rushing to delete Windows and Encarta from the school systems, but which should still have Microsoft worried. It is rare to find someone sitting on the fence in the battle...
[May 16, 2005, 14:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When the diary started, Google was Alta Vista, Wikipedia was a ripped-off copy of Encarta in a 4x CD-ROM, and broadband was a 28.8kbps V.34 modem. It's been more than ten years since I wrote my first diary entry for ZDNet UK.
[October 27, 2006, 18:40]
US Report: Microsoft online overseer steps down
News Before taking over the Interactive Media Group in 1996, Higgins was group vice president of the Applications and Content Group, where he spearheaded products such as Office and multimedia titles such as Encarta.
[November 11, 1998, 9:05]
