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I don't understand where this idea that Microsoft doesn't kill projects. Zune, Games for Windows Live, Skype, Encarta, CodePlex, Windows Phone, Internet Explor
by iamdelirium 2y ago
I don't understand where this idea that Microsoft doesn't kill projects.
Zune, Games for Windows Live, Skype, Encarta, CodePlex, Windows Phone, Internet Explorer.
https://killedbymicrosoft.info/ https://killedbymicrosoft.info/
- grepLeigh 2y agoHah, this is exactly what I was hoping to find. Thank you!
- ascorbic 2y agoThose mostly aren't counter-examples though. In most cases they supported them long after most people had stopped using them. Google is notorious for killing popular products.
- alternatex 2y agoForgot the most recent one - Skype.
- ljm 2y agoTechnically Edge as well, after they nuked their internal effort and switched to slapping Bing ads on a Chrome fork.
- bornfreddy 2y agoWell, Skype is the only one I'd miss, and after years of neglect I won't cry after it either. As for IE - good riddance. They could add Teams and Sharepoint to that list as far as I'm concerned. So maybe the difference is that Google kills projects that people love, while MS only kills unloved ones?