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?
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.