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https://killedbyms.com/ https://killedbyms.com/ Who's still salty about Microsoft killing Zune and Windows Phone? 0.5 x /s

InsaneOstrich 6y ago
RIP Zune
pjmlp 6y ago
Me, on Windows Phone, still my secondary phone and main one while traveling.
- reiichiroh 6y ago
  It’s theft-proof
lame-robot-hoax 6y ago
There’s actually way less products than I thought would be on there.
- jsnell 6y ago
  It's just because nobody has contributed to that site. Microsoft has put two bullets in the back of the head of hundreds of products. Here's a different list: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-products https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
  - Meph504 6y ago
    That site is a bit inaccurate in itself though, case in point Microsoft Teams Progressive Web App https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-communications-software#s23 https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros... And also, it list things that were consolidated into other apps, I don't know you could say it was killed off, but more moved. (such as Microsoft groups, is just a part of outlook now, and not a standalone app)
    - jsnell 6y ago
      Sure, but the criteria should be the same for everyone. The killedbygoogle site that people love spamming to HN comments has equally questionable entries.
fencepost 6y ago
Windows Phone had its annoyances, but I wish they'd held onto it - particularly now with more and more M365 subscription-based ecosystem push. A highly securable device with solid versions of Office, Teams, Outlook, Authenticator and other MS-owned products could actually be viable, and if they keep on with the ARM-based Surface Pro X family then ARM-based processors in phones wouldn't be a big stretch.
- stonogo 6y ago
  Ironically, Windows Phones clients never fully supported Microsoft's enterprise line -- specifically, the 'Outlook' app did not support shared calendards or even multiple calendars associated with one account. Digging into the application revealed that it re-used an open-source syncing library instead of being a Microsoft-built implementation! Exchange support was the bulk of the appeal for the platform for me, and lack thereof is the reason I moved on to Android, where I had real support for a more full-featured toolset.
  - atesti 6y ago
    How were you able to dig into the appliaction? Is it possible to get Windows phone excecutables and decompile them using ilspy etc.?
  - brnt 6y ago
    I've used multiple calenders per account without issue on my Windows phones.
    - stonogo 6y ago
      Congratulations, I guess. That support was not present back when Microsoft had a chance at being taken seriously in the mobile space. It's moot now.
      - brnt 6y ago
        I've been using this feature since I started using Winphones back in 2015.
detaro 6y ago
not "salty", since I never had one, but Windows Phone seemed like a good thing which at least locally was making some inroads when they gave up on it again.
- JamesBarney 6y ago
  I owned several. I would buy a $40 pre paid phone once a year and I never had any performance issues. I tried switching to a $40 android phone and it was basically unusable. My $500 Android is about as snappy as my prepaid windows phone.
BoorishBears 6y ago
On that list I only see a couple of things I could justify being salty about MS killing, and those two aren't it... both were already on life-support by being out competed. You could argue in a round about way they were killed because they didn't execute competently or something, but several things on that list were either outcompeted or obsoleted by their environment (Silverlight => HTML5). - The problem most people have with Google is when products that are doing well and are well loved by many... but not up to Google scale standards Wunderlist fits that description. They did replace it with To Do, which was made by the Wunderlist team, but technically not the same app XNA does, but MonoGame picked up the slack And of course... Microsoft Reader. That hideous Metro app that would try and open in full screen back in the early Windows Store days. Good riddance.
Anka33 6y ago
I LOVED MY Windows Phone! It was a communication device where as Apple and Android are toys
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gogopuppygogo 6y ago
Who else remembers when MS held a funeral for iPhone to celebrate releasing windows phone? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-phone-7-with-mock-iphone-funeral/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-p...
- nitrogen 6y ago
  Were there any phones based on WinCE before the iPhone? I liked the Pocket PC UI, it just needed a capacitive screen.
  - mikestew 6y ago
    Yeah, plenty as my wife and I had several. It was looking for a while there like HTC was going to become Microsoft’s phone hardware branch. The phones were good enough that I failed to see the big deal about the iPhone. Other than the web browser, yawn. 2G Edge-only when my HTC 8125 had been using 3G for, I dunno, ever? Then the iPhone 3G was released, and IMO that’s when iOS showed how wart-filled WinMo had become.
- microtherion 6y ago
  I do, and part of me was hoping that Google & Apple would have thrown a joint parade for the demise of Windows Phone, but classier minds prevailed…
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InsaneOstrich 6y ago

RIP Zune

pjmlp 6y ago

Me, on Windows Phone, still my secondary phone and main one while traveling.

reiichiroh 6y ago
It’s theft-proof

lame-robot-hoax 6y ago

There’s actually way less products than I thought would be on there.

jsnell 6y ago
It's just because nobody has contributed to that site. Microsoft has put two bullets in the back of the head of hundreds of products. Here's a different list: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-products https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
- Meph504 6y ago
  That site is a bit inaccurate in itself though, case in point Microsoft Teams Progressive Web App https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-microsoft-communications-software#s23 https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros... And also, it list things that were consolidated into other apps, I don't know you could say it was killed off, but more moved. (such as Microsoft groups, is just a part of outlook now, and not a standalone app)
  - jsnell 6y ago
    Sure, but the criteria should be the same for everyone. The killedbygoogle site that people love spamming to HN comments has equally questionable entries.

fencepost 6y ago

Windows Phone had its annoyances, but I wish they'd held onto it - particularly now with more and more M365 subscription-based ecosystem push. A highly securable device with solid versions of Office, Teams, Outlook, Authenticator and other MS-owned products could actually be viable, and if they keep on with the ARM-based Surface Pro X family then ARM-based processors in phones wouldn't be a big stretch.

stonogo 6y ago
Ironically, Windows Phones clients never fully supported Microsoft's enterprise line -- specifically, the 'Outlook' app did not support shared calendards or even multiple calendars associated with one account. Digging into the application revealed that it re-used an open-source syncing library instead of being a Microsoft-built implementation! Exchange support was the bulk of the appeal for the platform for me, and lack thereof is the reason I moved on to Android, where I had real support for a more full-featured toolset.
- atesti 6y ago
  How were you able to dig into the appliaction? Is it possible to get Windows phone excecutables and decompile them using ilspy etc.?
- brnt 6y ago
  I've used multiple calenders per account without issue on my Windows phones.
  - stonogo 6y ago
    Congratulations, I guess. That support was not present back when Microsoft had a chance at being taken seriously in the mobile space. It's moot now.
    - brnt 6y ago
      I've been using this feature since I started using Winphones back in 2015.

detaro 6y ago

not "salty", since I never had one, but Windows Phone seemed like a good thing which at least locally was making some inroads when they gave up on it again.

JamesBarney 6y ago
I owned several. I would buy a $40 pre paid phone once a year and I never had any performance issues. I tried switching to a $40 android phone and it was basically unusable. My $500 Android is about as snappy as my prepaid windows phone.

BoorishBears 6y ago

On that list I only see a couple of things I could justify being salty about MS killing, and those two aren't it... both were already on life-support by being out competed. You could argue in a round about way they were killed because they didn't execute competently or something, but several things on that list were either outcompeted or obsoleted by their environment (Silverlight => HTML5). - The problem most people have with Google is when products that are doing well and are well loved by many... but not up to Google scale standards Wunderlist fits that description. They did replace it with To Do, which was made by the Wunderlist team, but technically not the same app XNA does, but MonoGame picked up the slack And of course... Microsoft Reader. That hideous Metro app that would try and open in full screen back in the early Windows Store days. Good riddance.

Anka33 6y ago

I LOVED MY Windows Phone! It was a communication device where as Apple and Android are toys

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gogopuppygogo 6y ago

Who else remembers when MS held a funeral for iPhone to celebrate releasing windows phone? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-phone-7-with-mock-iphone-funeral/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-p...

nitrogen 6y ago
Were there any phones based on WinCE before the iPhone? I liked the Pocket PC UI, it just needed a capacitive screen.
- mikestew 6y ago
  Yeah, plenty as my wife and I had several. It was looking for a while there like HTC was going to become Microsoft’s phone hardware branch. The phones were good enough that I failed to see the big deal about the iPhone. Other than the web browser, yawn. 2G Edge-only when my HTC 8125 had been using 3G for, I dunno, ever? Then the iPhone 3G was released, and IMO that’s when iOS showed how wart-filled WinMo had become.
microtherion 6y ago
I do, and part of me was hoping that Google & Apple would have thrown a joint parade for the demise of Windows Phone, but classier minds prevailed…

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