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Microsdet throws the closing to its Encarta encyclopedia before the supremacy de Wikipedia
Microsdet has announced that in the next months will throw the definitive closing to its Encarta encyclopedia, that was hardly most important one decade ago, in a tacit recognition de which Wikipedia has become the global guide in Internet.
In a message in its page Web, Microsdet it indicates that “Encarta has been a popular product anywhere in the world by many years”. The encyclopedia has been distributed almost in all the compact disc countries and defers access in line. However, Microsdet is addition that “the traditional category de encyclopedias and reference materials has changed: now the public looks for and consumes information de forms considerably different from those from does few years”.
The greater difference is than Encarta, following the model de the British Encyclopedia, defered a finished product, with periodic updates, whereas Wikipedia and its imitadores defer a information that, although it requires corroboración, is updated constantly.
In agreement with the specialized site de Internet PaidContents.com, Wikipedia at the moment defers 2.7 million references in its version in English, compared with 42,000 in Encarta.
Like test de his constant revision, Wikipedia informed already today, in entrance de Encarta, that “Microsdet announced in March de 2009 that the sale de Microsdet Student and all the editions de the program Encarta Premium will stop, anywhere in the world, in June de 2009”.
“Microsdet mentioned the changes in the form in which people look for the information, and in the traditional market de encyclopedias and reference materials, like key reasons in this completion”, adds Wikipedia. Microsdet explained that to the present subscribers de MSN Encarta Premium it will collect to them what they have paid by that service beyond the 30 de April.
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