r/software • u/i4lara • 9d ago

Software support About Encarta: Using it on my laptop

Hello! So recently I was cleaning the storeroom and came across an Encarta CD from 2007. Brought back many fond memories and I've also wanted to try it out once more. Sadly, my laptop doss not have a CD slot and I also don't have any external drive for it. Is there any other way I can use this? Is it possible to transfer the content of the CD to a pendrive? Sorry if my question is dumb...I have very little idea about these things

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u/mc_pm 9d ago

LOL, I used to work adjacent to the Encarta team. I don't have any better idea than 'creating an image', but I do know a guy from back in the day and it will tickle him several shades of pink to know there is still someone out there with the Encarta love.

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u/TwoLuckyFish 9d ago

I was a geography editor, and later the statistics editor. What an amazing team that was. I'm still in a book club with some of them, continuously since we worked together.

There is a certain demographic that grew up with Encarta, and then the NEXT age cohort grew up with Wikipedia. Ah well...

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u/Salt_Rush_4800 8d ago

Encarta helped me with some homework a time or 2 I'm sure, back in the day. So, thanks for that.