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Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by entropie »

ro_bit wrote: post #7
entropie wrote: post #6

Is there a similar list for google? I dont know most of this entries in the list, but I can name like 5 things google has "killed" that I actually liked. Iam still pissed they buried reader.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

It was so easy that I could have thought of it myself. Thanks.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by throwaways85989 »

But can it run windows while on life-support? Can we shove the core-feature we wish for down its throat to kill it faster? Can we put windows on a tablet, or phone-GUI we wish we had a market for into our os?

Nothing as dangerous to your developing product line as that "one-trick-pony" keeping the company afloat, who wants to get in.

Then again, you can get that R&D for cheap, when it inevitable crashes and burns and the developers leave the company disillusioned.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by tester756 »

ILoo

Killed almost 19 years ago, iLoo was a smart portable toilet integrating the complete equipment to surf the Internet from inside and outside the cabinet. It was 13 days old.

lol

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by jbullock35 »

Missing: Microsoft Bookshelf [1]. Encarta was a somewhat similar product, but the reference sources in Bookshelf were arguably better. For example, Bookshelf contained the unabridged American Heritage Dictionary, while Encarta used (I think) a Webster's dictionary [2].

I still use Bookshelf 1996 on most days of the week.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bookshelf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta_Webster%27s_Dictionary

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by 300bps »

Would like to see the product that Microsoft replaced the killed product with. For example; Edge isn’t dead. It just got replaced by a fork of Chromium.

I called for them to give up on Internet Explorer and fork Chromium almost 8 years ago here on HN. I’m glad they did it but the one mistake is that they modified Chromium too much. I now get annoying prompts to scan for coupons and other ways to save money that don’t actually work.

My comment from almost 8 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7909383

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