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I disagree with your premise, but even then... Microsoft has discontinued lots of online services too! Almost 70: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/disc
by tech-historian 7y ago
I disagree with your premise, but even then... Microsoft has discontinued lots of online services too! Almost 70:
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-sites-and-services https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
Big companies cancel things. Priorities change, opportunities shift. It happens.
- close04 7y agoYou're correct, they did discontinue/killed a lot of stuff. I just noticed you insist on painting them in a much worse light throughout the discussion compared to how you paint Google. And you don't consider that MS is also exactly twice the age of Google (22 extra years to discontinue/kill products and services). I know whoever brought Google in the discussion was engaging in a bit of whataboutism but I think we can agree that while MS has some big failures (Windows Phone/Mobile sized), they are not standing out among other big names in the industry and are nowhere near as egregious with the practice as Google.