Encarta is Microsoft’s electronic encyclopedia product. It’s getting the axe and will be discontinued this year. For those that remember it, you most likely used it in its offline form on CDs.

Encarta is also an online product. But obviously it cannot compare to sites like Wikipedia and the internet in general as an online research tool, which is one of the reasons for its cancellation.

Most people remember Encarta in its offline form on CD. I remember using it years ago but wholly admit that it absolutely cannot compete to the way we search for information now.

The good thing about Microsoft Encarta is that in its software form it is completely immune to online vandalism, whereas Wikipedia isn’t.

You might want to consider purchasing Encarta while you still can. It’s cheap, complete and would be good to add to your software collection.