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Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Today, the web hosts an ever-increasing range of open informational resources - from the growing body of content licensed under Creative Commons, to the collaboratively produced online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia - the success of which... [03 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Money gets the heave-ho
News Microsoft said in March it was largely discontinuing its Encarta encyclopedia and has also scrapped its Windows OneCare antivirus product. Microsoft plans to stop selling Microsoft Money, its personal finance program. [11 Jun 2009]
Wikia Search killed off in economic gloom
News Its venerable professionally created online (formerly CD-based) encyclopedia, Encarta, is running out of gas. His company has been trying to contact Microsoft about making Encarta data available under a... [01 Apr 2009]
Encarta killed off
News Microsoft has quietly confirmed that it is getting out of the encyclopaedia business, ending its long-standing Encarta product. The software maker says it will discontinue all its online Encarta products... [31 Mar 2009]
Microsoft ditches MSN for Macs
News The company will also still allow those with their own internet access to pay for a collection of browser-based MyMSN services, including 2GB of Hotmail storage, Encarta Premium and Money Plus. Microsoft plans to all but... [14 Mar 2005]
Microsoft launches into search
News Ask Jeeves, Google and smaller sites like Answers.com have sought to fill in search requests with answers to questions on the weather, entertainment and package tracking, MSN believes it can do one better with its encyclopaedia software... [01 Feb 2005]
Libraries' treasures get the Google treatment
News Microsoft, for example, has built encyclopaedia answers from its Encarta software into search results for its new proprietary engine. On Tuesday, the Mountain View, California-based company is expected to announce... [15 Dec 2004]
Online cheaters beware
Comment Unless you happened to know the IP addresses of its various sites (including microsoft.com, msn.com, msnbc.com and encarta.com), you'd have found yourself unable to gain access. Tracey, in a fit of pique, decided enough... [26 Jan 2001]
Microsoft back online - sort of
News It reads: " Microsoft is currently experiencing issues with its web sites: microsoft.com, msn.com, msnbc.com, windowsmedia.com, encarta.com and carpoint.com. Microsoft.co.uk, however, is still unavailable. [25 Jan 2001]
Microsoft clueless about cause of website crash
News The online properties affected include microsoft.com, msn.com, msnbc.com and encarta.com. The only details available so far are that the software giant's domain name servers (DNS) failed. But Microsoft has been unable to... [24 Jan 2001]
easyJet announces flotation price range and ASP offering
News The joint venture will allow users in the Time Square café to access Office 2000, Works Suite 2001 and Encarta 2001 for as little as $1.50. A spokesman for easyJet said the price range would be narrowed following the... [31 Oct 2000]
Microsoft to put a laptop on every child's desk
News Projects such as the Encarta encyclopaedia are still the exception, he added. Microsoft has launched its Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL) initiative with the aim of providing every school pupil in the UK with a notebook PC. [01 Feb 2000]
