“Microsoft is shutting down its Encarta encyclopedia Web sites and will also discontinue its Student and Premium Encarta software products,” Nancy Gohring reports for IDG News Service.
“‘The category of traditional encyclopedias and reference material has changed,’ reads a note explaining the move on the MSN Encarta Web site. ‘People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past,'” Gohring reports.
MacDailyNews Take: In other words, Microsoft has failed yet again to make their product the one that people wish to use.
Gohring reports, “The Encarta Web sites worldwide will shut down on Oct. 31 and Microsoft will stop selling the software products by June this year.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jubei” for the heads up.]
