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An account of the development of Microsoft's new child's encyclopedia on CD-ROM, "Explorapedia," chronicles the wrangling among designers, educators, programmers, and marketers that shaped the product
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When you strip away the luster, novelty, and excitement surrounding the newest generation of computer software - multimedia software on CD-ROM - you find a world not of high-tech efficiency but of simple human muddling. This is what Fred Moody discovered when he spent more than a year shadowing a team of Microsoft developers working in the epicenter of the multimedia explosion - on a children's compact disc to be called Explorapedia.
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