encarta

After Encarta was retired, that group took it on themselves to create a lean competitor to Blackboard.

As a counterexample, Encarta on CD-ROM was quite useful as a tool for education and inspiration.

The group within Microsoft that produced Encarta had a lot of teachers in it.

My parents were so cheap I didn't even have encarta but some cheap IBM branded clone.

The old Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia had different facts for different countries.

(~500 MB, but Encarta 95 that came with it was >600 MB) My parents were and still are cheapskates.

I remember Encarta Factfinder back in the day did something similar.

To some extent online encyclopedias form a natural monopoly, and if that's the case then it's better that Wikipedia is it (rather than maybe Microsoft Encarta or Encyclopedia Britannica).

I have the 2001 Encarta dictionary, print edition!

Nice topic by the way, I remember watching the quantum mechanics movies (and the relativity movies) on my Encarta CDrom (I was 12 I think) over and over and just enjoy that feeling of uneasiness, the feeling that there is another world down there.

Let's look at facts here: Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Feminism: The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes Encarta Dictionary: Feminism: Belief in the need to secure rights and opportunities for women equal to those of men Encyclopedia Britannica: Feminism: Social movement that seeks equal rights for women.

Microsoft Encarta had a few of those "walks" and I used it extensively until it was slowly replaced by Wikipedia.

I remember my high school teacher's first introduction to an online encyclopedia article - we were tasked with some writing, and one of my friends had this new "Encarta" software (that was 1994 or so).

Take for example Wikipedia - They're a 501(c)(3) but they've certainly competed with Encyclopedia Britannica, Grolier, Encarta, etc.

Encarta, Britannica and Citizendium have already proved many other approaches and/or management styles substandard.

Encarta, first released in '93, was shut down recently too.