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Phantom Lancer · 11-04-2009, 03:48 PM

You cant blame them (Microsoft)

The number of offline Encyclopedia user base is very very small .... and restricted to few countries like India , where the cost of Internet is very high ...... so looking at it from a global perspective Microsoft's decision to stop Encarta makes good business sense ....

The main advantage of a community driven online Encyclopedia like Wikipedia is that its very up to date and got articles on almost all possible topics .....But ofcourse Wikipedia (or any other source for that matter) should not be your only source of information .

11-04-2009, 03:48 PM	#23 (permalink)
Phantom Lancer meh Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 171	Re: Microsoft Encarta to be Discontinued You cant blame them (Microsoft) The number of offline Encyclopedia user base is very very small .... and restricted to few countries like India , where the cost of Internet is very high ...... so looking at it from a global perspective Microsoft's decision to stop Encarta makes good business sense .... The main advantage of a community driven online Encyclopedia like Wikipedia is that its very up to date and got articles on almost all possible topics .....But ofcourse Wikipedia (or any other source for that matter) should not be your only source of information .