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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Encarta provided MS will a billion-dollars a year of business for a decade. Then it provided traffic to MSN for another 5 years. That is 15 years longer than most of the other encyclopedia vendors.
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Do you have a reference for that figure? Because it's very hard for me to believe.
For reference purposes, Encarta was launched in 1993 for $395. That price quickly dropped to $99 and was often bundled as free software as part of a new computer purchase. Encarta became available for free on the web in 2000 and was eventually taken over from Microsoft in 2006.