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Microsoft discontinues Encarta

Posted on | March 31, 2009 | No Comments

Another symbol of the old proprietary world falls: Microsoft Encarta will be discontinued on October 31.
No wonder – who wants to pay for an encyclopedia, when everything is on Wikipedia for free? With updates every minute – and written by the people of the world, not only biased first-world historians.

Read Microsoft’s announcement here.

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