Microsoft Encarta, the encyclopedia-on-a-disc (and later website), is going away in October of this year. In many ways, it was like training wheels for kids learning how to research topics on their ...

Back in the days when he worked on print encyclopedias, Gary Alt and his colleagues would toil all year on the new edition and send it off to the printer. But months would then pass before readers saw ...

Long before Wikipedia turned the internet into an endless amount of user-generated knowledge, it was Microsoft Encarta that truly changed how we learned in the digital age. In the 1990s and early ...