Killed by Microsoft:A full list of dead products which are killed by Microsoft
Killed by Microsoft:A full list of dead products which are killed by Microsoft
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Killed by Microsoft
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Yeah, unlike Google a lot of these make sense (as in technology moved on) or were transitioned into other systems (Skype vs teams) or taken over by other products (atom vs vs code).
It actually makes Microsoft look somewhat good compared to the Google graveyard.
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There's plenty of great stuff in there; I especially recommend filtering for dead hardware.
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But killing MSN Messenger for Skype is a much greater crime against Humanity than any of Google’s, except maybe for Google Reader.
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Windows Subsystem for Android
Killed 18 days ago, Windows Subsystem for Android was a feature of Windows 11 which allows users to install and run Android apps. It was about 3 years oldAh, so that's what happened to it.
Edit:
Microsoft partnered with Amazon, but without official access to Google’s Play Store [...]. That’s probably a big part of the reason Microsoft has chosen to simply kill off its Android apps on Windows 11.
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I assume this list will contain a lot of "Copilot" entries in about two years.
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Atom
Still miss you, bud.
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Try zed, from makers of Atom. Its the fastest editor ive tried.
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RIP Kinect. It should have brilliant but wound up balls.* Alien Isolation* was the only game that used it effectively to my mind.
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ILoo was just too early for it's time.
Can't wait to see Teams on that list one day.
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Nothing about Live Writer? Has it been that well killed that it's not worth mentioning? ;)
I know MS has open sourced it years ago, but I have not seen much of it in quite a few years...
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God, Foldershare was the shit about 2006.
Pick any folder on your PC, share it with a friend anywhere on the internet and it kept them in sync.
The powers that be simply could not tolerate that.
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I had no idea that existed!
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Microsoft acquired them in about 2006 or 2007, and that was that.
Today we have Syncthing and Resilio, but that's nowhere near as simple as Foldershare.
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RiP microsoft BOB 😔
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Man, using FrontPage and PhotoDraw formed my introduction to web design.
That's one hell of a list though.
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What about Skype?
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Interesting information!
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I snort laughed at "People", but I have this feeling I read a medical professional complain about an unplanned unskippable 3 hour Windows Update cycle in Vista days at a critical moment in health care and.. yeah..
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Windowson the list?-
I wish it happen.
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TIL there was a subsystem for Android
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I used to use publisher over Word, but I suppose its Word has caught up to it now. Sad to see it go.
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Word hasn't caught up, and never will. Just not enough users of Publisher in the consumer world.
Page layout professionals don't use Publisher - it never competed with that stuff in the first place.
The print landscape has changed since MS acquired Publisher in ~1994.
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Many common Publisher scenarios—including creating professionally branded templates, printing envelopes and labels, and producing customized calendars, business cards, and programs—are already available in other Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and PowerPoint.
If only.
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These all seem like good decisions to me. Scrolled down for quite a while and couldn't find a single thing I'd want them to keep alive
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