Killed by Microsoft:A full list of dead products which are 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.
But killing MSN Messenger for Skype is a much greater crime against Humanity than any of Google’s, except maybe for Google Reader.
Ah, so that's what happened to it.
Edit:
I assume this list will contain a lot of "Copilot" entries in about two years.
Still miss you, bud.
Try zed, from makers of Atom. Its the fastest editor ive tried.
https://zed.dev/blog/we-have-to-start-over
RIP Kinect. It should have brilliant but wound up balls.* Alien Isolation* was the only game that used it effectively to my mind.
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...
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.
I had no idea that existed!
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.
ILoo was just too early for it's time.
Can't wait to see Teams on that list one day.
RiP microsoft BOB 😔
I miss minecraft earth and groove music.
What was minecraft earth?
Think "pokemon go" but minecraft.
Huh, sounds interesting.
Man, using FrontPage and PhotoDraw formed my introduction to web design.
That's one hell of a list though.
What about Skype?
It's funny how this doesn't affect me anymore. Just some months ago I would have looked at this with anxiety, but now it's just entertainment.
No, because I switched to Linux and have very little exposure to Microsoft products anymore.
Interesting information!
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..
Is
Windowson the list?I wish it happen.
TIL there was a subsystem for Android
I used to use publisher over Word, but I suppose its Word has caught up to it now. Sad to see it go.
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.
If only.
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