![]() ![]() ![]() "We knew from the beginning that we were a temporary business, eventually to be overtaken by the internet," Corddry says. ![]() ![]() In hindsight, they seem like oddities: Why would Microsoft, a company best known for making word processors, spreadsheets, and operating systems, make what was basically a reference library for the PC?īut according to Tom Corddry, who was in charge of Microsoft's multimedia projects from 1989 to 1996, the company had a clever master plan to push computers forward in the time before they were taken for granted. Those Microsoft Multimedia offerings included "Magic School Bus," "Microsoft Dogs," and the "Microsoft Encarta" encyclopedia. If you went to grade school in the nineties like I did, you might remember Microsoft's educational software titles published on CD-ROM. ![]()
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