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I tried a few deeper cuts, and wow, this is really thorough! Has anyone noticed anything they missed?
by kick 7y ago
I tried a few deeper cuts, and wow, this is really thorough! Has anyone noticed anything they missed?
- wvenable 7y agoWindows 10 S seems odd as you can still purchase products, brand new, that have it. So how is it discontinued?
- mikewhy 7y agoWindows 10 "S edition" has been discontinued, in favor of Windows 10 "S Mode". What the distinction is, I'm not sure.
- wvenable 7y agoA lot of these disconnected products have pretty much direct replacements with slightly different names, same functionality, and probably even data continuity. Or were hardly separate products to begin with.
- tech-historian 7y agoWhich ones? Products are only on the list if they didn't have direct descendant drop-in replacements that were straightforward for the user to upgrade.
- WorldMaker 7y agoThe distinction: S Mode can be enabled/disabled by an admin on any Windows 10 system, as a toggle in Settings. S Edition was briefly sold as if it was a different product or different version of Windows; to disable it one would need to purchase Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro, and there was no way to reenable it.
- geogra4 7y agoFrontpage/Expression Web - but I guess WYSIWYG web dev products don't really exist anymore?
- tech-historian 7y agoFrontPage and Expression products are all in there: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-creative-software#s13 https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros... https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-creative-software#s19 https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...