I believe a careful reading of the FAQ, while a buzzkill, casts doubt on
Encarta's content being released:
"Microsoft's vision is that everyone around the world needs to have access
to quality education, and *we believe that we can use what we’ve learned and
assets we’ve accrued with offerings like
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Then I also ask myself in how far this evolution is to be credited mainly
> to
> Wikipedia, or has it been "the Internet" in general that killed the
> dead-tree-encyclopedias.
The personal computer killed the dead-tree encyclopedia. But En
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Maria Fanucchi wrote:
> RIP Encarta.
> For better or for worse, it was for many people, especially children, the
> first encyclopedia they ever encountered. It may eventually have sparked the
> interest of, and inspired, more than a few Wikipedians.
The first ency
Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> Maybe we could use that $20,000 that Philip Greenspun donated back in
> 2007 to purchase the Encarta illustrations (since it doesn't appear
> that that money is ever going to be used otherwise).
$20,000 means practically nothing to Microsoft. It's far more likely
that they
Maybe we could use that $20,000 that Philip Greenspun donated back in
2007 to purchase the Encarta illustrations (since it doesn't appear
that that money is ever going to be used otherwise).
Ryan Kaldari
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
>> Tomorrow is April 1st ...
>
>
> Tomorrow is April 1st ...
what is special about it? gmail birthday?
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ziko van Dijk
> wrote:
>
>> The Encarta people were very unprecise about what they are going to do in
>> future...
>> So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except
>> Britannica? And what about the situ
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> The Encarta people were very unprecise about what they are going to do in
> future...
> So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except
> Britannica? And what about the situation in French, Italian etc., has anyone
> a
2009/3/31 Ziko van Dijk :
> So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except
> Britannica? And what about the situation in French, Italian etc., has anyone
> an overview about that?
Enciclopèdia Catalana [1] is a very good free-as-in-beer online
encyclopedia in the Catalan La
The Encarta people were very unprecise about what they are going to do in
future...
So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except
Britannica? And what about the situation in French, Italian etc., has anyone
an overview about that?
Then I also ask myself in how far this evol
RIP Encarta.
For better or for worse, it was for many people, especially children, the
first encyclopedia they ever encountered. It may eventually have sparked the
interest of, and inspired, more than a few Wikipedians.
Let's hope some of their material can be released (I'm hoping specifically
for
Well wow.
FMF
2009/3/31 shi zhao
> Oh, M$
>
> 2009/3/31 Milos Rancic
>
> > Encarta is dead [1]. Anyone willing to talk with Microsoft about
> > getting materials for Wikipedia?
> >
> > [1] - http://encarta.msn.com/guide_page_FAQ/FAQ.html
> >
> > __
Milos Rancic wrote:
> Encarta is dead [1]. Anyone willing to talk with Microsoft about
> getting materials for Wikipedia?
>
> [1] - http://encarta.msn.com/guide_page_FAQ/FAQ.html
>
There's already some effort being made by the Communications Committee
to reach out.
--Michael Snow
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2009/3/31 Milos Rancic
> Encarta is dead [1]. Anyone willing to talk with Microsoft about
> getting materials for Wikipedia?
>
> [1] - http://encarta.msn.com/guide_page_FAQ/FAQ.html
>
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Encarta is dead [1]. Anyone willing to talk with Microsoft about
getting materials for Wikipedia?
[1] - http://encarta.msn.com/guide_page_FAQ/FAQ.html
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