Microsoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in 1985. Before the Internet allowed you to instantaneously look up every ...

Those Microsoft Multimedia offerings included "Magic School Bus," "Microsoft Dogs," and the "Microsoft Encarta" encyclopedia. In hindsight, they seem like oddities: Why would Microsoft ...

Compact discs offered a new medium of storage for personal computers. Take a walk down memory lane with this outmoded form of ...

Microsoft was also a customer--its online Encarta encyclopedia software uses the technology to provide maps and other graphical answers to users' questions. Microsoft plans to continue selling the ...

All definitions in this encyclopedia are not only consistent in style because they are written by one person, Alan Freedman, but they get clearer all the time because they are routinely edited for ...

No matter what business topic you're interested in, you'll find our category list is an easy way to navigate our small-business encyclopedia. From Accounting and Advertising to Location and ...

Released 30 years ago this month, the Apple Macintosh revolutionized how artists and designers work. Here, we talk to a handful of creatives--including the inventor of MacPaint and the designer of ...

The idea of Pangaea comes from Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the seven continents were once joined as a supercontinent.