Microsoft Encarta buried.

The Encarta Encyclopedia has made the fight against knowledge Wikipedia giant abandoned: even in this half of Microsoft stopped production of its software and closes by the end of 2009 all online spending.

 

At the beginning of the nineties there was a revolution, who wanted to know when the Thirty Years War ended (October 24, 1648), how many wives Henry VIII had (six), or what today happened in 1889 (in Paris, the work on the Eiffel Tower completed), was no longer on the handle to the bookshelf instructed.

Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia: At the end of 2009 is final

There is no searching for the right band Lexicon, no scrolling through pages worn more. Just a few clicks and you already had the desired result prior to the screen. With Microsoft's encyclopedia software
Encarta suddenly everything seemed so easy.

16 years and numerous language versions later
Microsoft has announced that by the end of 2009 the entire Encarta series is set. Already in June, the software products Microsoft Student and Encarta Premium not to buy, only updates are still available as long as it is the online Encarta is. This is at 31 October finally from the grid - with the exception of Japan Encarta, which has a grace period until 31 December 2009. Subscribers of a premium version but should get back their money, says the Encarta Web site.

1993 appeared the first time a CD-ROM with Encarta software. When the conquest of the Internet began, were soon all information made available online. According to the
Encarta encyclopedia entry on its own came in 1995 a hybrid CD-ROM version on the market, one a month - even a week later - with online content was updated.

But the popularity of software-based Encarta fell. The once-groundbreaking lexicon software from Microsoft has - like the Encyclopaedia Britannica - gradually lost their significance, the ever popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been. Wikipedia offers significantly more article topics, some of which are extensive and current than the Encarta contributions made by an editorial team to maintain, by far smaller than the huge army of volunteers Wikipedia authors.

The English-language Wikipedia entry on the Encarta is - how should it be otherwise - already on the latest standard