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 said it will cease its Encarta encyclopedia later this year, citing changes in the way customers seek and consume information. Most MSN Encarta Web sites will shut down on Oct. 31, the ...

Can you imagine (or remember) living in a world without Wikipedia? If you wanted to know the basic facts on a given topic, what would you do? You could get a physical encyclopedia, but after you did, ...

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.

SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia, which competes in an arena dominated by communally-crafted free Internet reference source Wikipedia. The US software colossus ...

Back in the days when he worked on print encyclopedias, Gary Alt and his colleagues would toil all year on the new edition and send it off to the printer. But months would then pass before readers saw ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2005. This program is Microsoft's Encyclopedia application that features thousands of articles, images and videos.