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Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia
April 1, 2009 - 2:42am — Bibliofuture
Technorati Tags: Internet
Microsoft delivered the coup de grâce Monday to its dying Encarta encyclopedia, acknowledging what everyone else realized long ago: it just couldn’t compete with Wikipedia, a free, collaborative project that has become the leading encyclopedia on the Web.
Full story in the New York Times
Related article: Good riddance, Encarta!
Related article: Microsoft kills Encarta: Is society getting dummer?
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That first "related article" is a real charmer
Hmm. Celebrate the death of a pretty good encyclopedia...because somehow this guy's convinced it will lead to less use of a mediocre web encyclopedia and more critical thinking by students? Sure it will...and little rainbow-colored unicorns will drop big bags of money on teachers' desks too.