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The History of Microsoft Encarta (www.abortretry.fail)
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In 1985, shortly after the release of Windows 1.0, Bill Gates set Min Lee on a mission to find a partner for a digital encyclopedia product that would serve as a reference companion to Microsoft’s productivity applications. Lee then approached Britannica, the undisputed leader in the encyclopedia market, who’d recently released a new version of the fifteenth edition of their encyclopedia. Microsoft proposed a partnership to produce a multimedia CD-ROM version of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In exchange for non-exclusive rights to Britannica’s text, Microsoft would pay Britannica a royalty on each copy of the CD-ROM product sold. Britannica immediately declined Lee’s proposal.

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[-] jlow@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Aww, so nostalgic, that was one of the first things we did on a PC as children. Listening to many nations anthems in terible midi quality ^__^

There seem to be quite a few up on archive.org:

https://archive.org/search?query=Encarta

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