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Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on Encarta, the digital encyclopedia that debuted way back in 1993 to compete with Encyclopedia Britannica.
In doing so, Microsoft all but concedes that Wikipedia is the reference guide of the present and future.
Encarta expanded rapidly throughout the 90’s as it was much more popular that paper encyclopedias, [...]

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