At his best, he makes good bad movies. Knowledge at a click One of Bill Gates's greatest victories wasn't with Windows. It was his conquest of the encyclopedia world. It posed stiff competition for the old, paper models that weighed a ton and required monthly installment payments. Old media caught on quick.
Users can even buy a subscription to look up articles online without buying disks.
Both Encarta Encyclopedia's 32,000 articles and Britannica's 72,000 entries fit on a hard drive instead of a bookshelf. Updates can be pulled off the Web every month. The package includes piles of pictures, sound clips, games, and other educational goodies. Yet don't expect this development to kill off the public library like it's killing off those 32 thick volumes. Reading on a computer screen isn't as easy as looking at a book or magazine.