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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft May Have Killed Encarta by Buying It

After takin' a swig o' grog, Philip belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

>> Microsoft Encarta died - why? And will its contents be lost?
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft has recently announced that its beloved encyclopaedia, Microsoft 
>> | Encarta, will soon be discontinued. After October 31, 2009 its contents will 
>> | no longer be available. Both the online version and the CD ROM version will 
>> | be discontinued.   
>> | 
>> | My first reaction was ?what a pity?. My job is to gather and publish good 
>> | contents. I know how much work goes into creating and publishing material. 
>> | This news must have been quite hard to digest for people who have been 
>> | working on Encarta for a while. The two main questions that come to mind, 
>> | however, are: ?Why??, and more importantly, ?What about the contents??    
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/fsm_newsletter_12_april_2009_encarta_died
>
> Beloved by whom? It was always a last resort toy. Never enough detail.

Sound like Microsoft Help!

-- 
A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
		-- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.

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