Games for Windows Live belongs there. When that service went down took a lot of online games that depended on it with it.
Huh, I didn’t realize they ended that.
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#22I like seeing the list of services, but I wish it was called "Microsoft Graveyard" instead of "Killed by Microsoft". Some of those wouldn't be around today regardless of the controlling organization, such as Silverlight and Encarta. To me, "Killed by Microsoft" makes it sound like Microsoft chose to discontinue a product that otherwise would still be "alive" today.
It isn't even fair to say that some of these products are dead. For example, you can still use Microsoft Streets & Trips today, as it's from an era when you bought (rather than rented) software. It's just not getting any more updates, so its usefulness diminishes as the road network changes.
Microaoft Edge continues too, it just switched technology
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#23I like seeing the list of services, but I wish it was called "Microsoft Graveyard" instead of "Killed by Microsoft". Some of those wouldn't be around today regardless of the controlling organization, such as Silverlight and Encarta. To me, "Killed by Microsoft" makes it sound like Microsoft chose to discontinue a product that otherwise would still be "alive" today.
This does feel like a somewhat bilious [anti-?]fanboy counter to the Google Graveyard website.
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#24Needs entries for their Natural Keyboard Pro, still the best of their split keyboard implementations and the Natural Keyboard 4000, which was a close runner up.
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#25Games for Windows Live belongs there. When that service went down took a lot of online games that depended on it with it.
It's a common misconception that Microsoft closed the Games for Windows Live service.
Basic features still work:
https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/help/games-apps/my-games-apps...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
It was so easy that I could have thought of it myself. Thanks.
The "killed by microsoft" site looks like a rip off of the well known "killed by google" site. Id day that they really try to push fake controversy and extend the list e.g. Microsoft Edge just switched its technology and still exists.
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#27Am I the only one getting a DNS error here? Tried link and www.
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#28I miss movie maker, live writer and windows phone.
Movie Maker (sort of) lives on as "Video Editor".
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#29Zune is on there twice. Speaking of Zune, I loved it. I know it got a lot of shit for being an also ran against the iPod, but it was a seriously solid media player and I found it better than the iPod in many ways. Zune software was always gorgeous, had an innovative subscription model (you get to keep some DRM free songs every month forever, even if you cancel the sub. Wish Spotify did that.) and felt innovative compared to iTunes, which looked like Excel for music.
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#30I didn't realise that Internet Explorer Edge is dead?