The End of Encarta

In a case of the revolution eating its own, Micorsoft will be pulling the plug on its Encarta encyclopedia. It will stop selling it by June and the Encarta website will be gone in October. Details can be found here: http://encarta.msn.com/guide_page_FAQ/FAQ.html

An article from The New York Times has more information: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/microsoft-encarta-dies-after-long-battle-with-wikipedia/?hp

Whodunnit? Wikipedia, among other suspects. Like many technological innovations, Encarta got passed by. Encarta, R.I.P.