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Because the company thought its brand name was irresistible, it brushed off the challenge posed by Microsoft's Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia, and when it first introduced the CD-ROM version of its own encyclopedia, it priced it so high that Encarta was essentially handed the market.
This wasn't a case of misinterpretation--the book has very severe problems, which were barely touched on even in the harsher newspaper reviews (which, in any event, are unlikely to have much effect on Encarta 's sales).
In this, it is very much like another Microsoft product, the new Encarta Dictionary . The dictionary and its style guide would make Mrs. Grundy proud.
Rather than find out how Microsoft produced Encarta , I would really like to know how Microsoft got every PC company to load its computers with Microsoft software and not that of other--at times, superior--operating systems (the conventional wisdom that Gates handed his systems' standards out to everyone while his competitors kept their standards proprietary doesn't begin to account for the enormity of Microsoft's success).
When the Encarta Dictionary of English was published last month, the press celebrated the event by listing the dictionary's errors, which surely mortified Anne Soukhanov, its editor.