The case contains three illustrations: Encarta, Compton CD, and Britannica Online. First, at Microsoft the development of Encarta was a pet project for Bill Gates from the mid-1980s onward as he sought to diversify the portfolio of PC applications the company sold. The unit was given only a small set of resources but a broad and flexible mandate. That arrangement motivated several actions: taking the existing text of a nearly defunct encyclopedia, licensed from Funk & Wagnall’s, and adding numerous video, musical, and visual features to make it quite attractive. The resulting product eventually launched to great fanfare in 1993.
The case contains three illustrations: Encarta, Compton CD, and Britannica Online. First, at Microsoft the development of Encarta was a pet project for Bill Gates from the mid-1980s onward as he sought to diversify the portfolio of PC applications the company sold. The unit was given only a small set of resources but a broad and flexible mandate. That arrangement motivated several actions: taking the existing text of a nearly defunct encyclopedia, licensed from Funk & Wagnall’s, and adding numerous video, musical, and visual features to make it quite attractive. The resulting product eventually launched to great fanfare in 1993.
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The case contains three illustrations: Encarta, Compton CD, and Britannica Online. First, at Microsoft the development of Encarta was a pet project for Bill Gates from the mid-1980s onward as he sought to diversify the portfolio of PC applications the company sold. The unit was given only a small set of resources but a broad and flexible mandate. That arrangement motivated several actions: taking the existing text of a nearly defunct encyclopedia, licensed from Funk & Wagnall’s, and adding numerous video, musical, and visual features to make it quite attractive. The resulting product eventually launched to great fanfare in 1993.
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