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Microsoft has killed more products than Google.
by panarky 3y ago
Microsoft has killed more products than Google.
- Dalewyn 3y agoMicrosoft has also set more products in solid granite than Google.
- alex_young 3y agoGood old Windows Cement. https://external-preview.redd.it/1WN9Vrz1gjERiGjyfJ8kUZEANRBBcFdd-Sn2D1CXD0U.png?auto=webp&s=71e25910eba00481fc53ccba97139b52023ddb72 https://external-preview.redd.it/1WN9Vrz1gjERiGjyfJ8kUZEANRB...
- Dalewyn 3y agoWindows today is unironically cement solid. Windows XP incorporated more user-centric elements from 9x, which culminated with ME, into NT. Windows 8 incorporated more mobile-centric elements from CE into NT. Windows is still rock solid at running programs from almost 30 years ago.
- xtracto 3y agoShit, there are computers doing productive work and going strong on MSDOS 6.22 here in Mexico. Released in 1994, that makes it 30 year old software working without issues. Google software can only DREAM of doing that. Microsoft was doing software while Google people were still even not planned to be born.
- Dalewyn 3y agoFun trivia of the day: MS-DOS 1 through 7.0 only reached EOL in 2001, and MS-DOS 7.1 and 8 which were shipped with Windows 9x only reached EOL in 2006. If we consider the start year to be 1981, the year MS-DOS 1 came out, that is twenty years of official, commercial support, if we count 7.1 and 8 that's twenty five years. If you need software you can count on to still be there a few decades down the line, if not more de facto, count on Microsoft to deliver.
- djbusby 3y agoAren't they a bit older? Time let's these numbers stack. Maybe percent alive to dead is the metric?
- Kye 3y agoMost of them still run, though. Either directly on modern Windows or with something like ReactOS. You can't keep using Inbox once it's shut down.
- dylan604 3y ago>Most of them still run specifically, how are those audio files bought from the M$ mu$ic store when they pulled the plug on the licensing server for their DRM? your claim of still running on modern Windows would be impressive if it is actually true, but saying to use a completely different OS is not something the vast majority of people not typically reading HN are going to do.
- Dalewyn 3y agoI mean, I'm still running Paint Shop Pro 5 and Winamp on Windows 11 like I'm still in the late 90s. Windows and Microsoft are the legendary backwards compatibility outlier in the software industry where essentially everyone else moves fast and breaks shit.
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- dumpsterdiver 3y agoOof, Winamp? Check this out: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-0065/ https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-0065/
- Dalewyn 3y agoWhy dafuq would I care about a bug related to a streaming service I've never even heard of when all I do is play locally stored music files? Incidentally, I still have not come across a suitable replacement for Winamp all these years later. They all have crappy UIs or bring features that I do not want and get in my way.
- PascLeRasc 3y agoThe difference is no one misses them.
- macintux 3y agoI miss Musical Instruments. That was fun to browse.
- dumpsterdiver 3y agoAt least until Clippy dies, at which point some people will miss loving him, and probably a few more will miss hating him. Either way, he will be missed.
- WorldMaker 3y agoUh, Office hasn't included Clippy in decades? Are you posting from 90s Slashdot, too?
- dumpsterdiver 3y ago(quiet gasp) He's gone? I must have lost track of the time I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna go get some exercise playing a VR game (kneels down and leans head forward uncomfortably to look into a Gameboy Virtual Boy).
- feyman_r 3y agoWithout a source mentioned, I assume you refer to this[1]? A comparison shows most products that should be dead are on that list. G, on the other hand, has products actively used and loved by users. [1] https://killedbymicrosoft.info/ https://killedbymicrosoft.info/
- jsnell 3y agoHow many of the products on the Killed by Google list do you think is "products actively used and loved by users"? Like half a dozen on that whole list? How many had you even heard about? This Domains shutdown definitely qualifies for the short list though, and is the most mystifying shutdown of theirs in like a decade. It was a paid service with clear strategic importance and clearly a ton of happy customers.
- Nebasuke 3y agoThings I am or was actively using (and mostly liked): Inbox, Domains, Reader, Wave, GChat, (Hangouts, but it doesn't fully count), AdSense mobile app, Google+, goog.gl, Play Music (YouTube Music sucks), Buzz, Labs (particularly in Gmail), Google WiFi app (the home app is worse), Picasa, and I can probably find more. I have stopped using any new Google product, and am slowly phasing out my reliance on their other products.
- WorldMaker 3y agoAlso, a quick skim of that page lists products from at least the 1990s before Google even existed which seems unfair if you are trying to objectively match up counts. Microsoft does have a few more decades on Google.
- uninformed 3y agoMicrosoft kills products that were dead anyway. Google hypes you up, cuddles you, tells you that you're the best and then pushes you off the cliff when you're not looking because you farted in bed the other night.