Encarta Falls Victim to Wikipedia
Microsoft’s Encarta, Rendered Obsolete by Wikipedia, Will Shut Down
Microsoft has announced that it will soon euthanize Encarta, the onetime encyclopedia-of-the-future that has lost much of its luster in the last decade. But the company really didn’t have much choice in the matter: For all intents and purposes, Wikipedia had fatally shivved Encarta some time ago.
April 23, 2009