[WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

[Ian Woollard]

On 31/03/2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course it is possible that MS have made the
> judgment that the whole sector is not good for
> them, but actually I would prefer to be hopeful
> that this means they would give more impetus
> to powerset now. I personally think powerset is
> currently the best interface for wikipedia, bar
> none.

I just had a quick play with it, but I soured on it when I discovered
that the second article I looked at was about 4 months old, and
vandalised, and this was a well looked-after article. They don't seem
to have stabilised the versions they took, they just picked them at a
random point in time.

> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

-- 
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly
imperfect world would be *much* better. Life in an imperfectly perfect
world would be pretty ghastly though.