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Re: Killed by Microsoft

#31

I miss movie maker, live writer and windows phone.

Movie Maker was great. There is in fact a little-known useful video editor built into Windows 10 and 11 called Video Editor (previously was only available through the Photos app for some reason) but it doesn't hold a candle to Movie Maker.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

#32
Is it really that bad? I believe if there is no alternative and a need then there will be a software at some point. I guess it is pure economics and I personally miss none of these.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

#33
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.

RIP Google Inbox.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

#37
That list looks like mostly like Former Microsoft products. What about all of the great products that were absorbed and dismantled by Microsoft, like the fantastic visual database called Formbase.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

#38
I was gifted a Nokia Lumia 640 when it just came out. It was a nice phone, it had good hardware, it was fast and worked smoothly. It had all the applications I needed and honestly thought that it was gonna take over Android, given Nokia's reputation and popularity of Windows.

Then Microsoft forced a Windows 10 update on it, and everything slowed down to a halt. Camera application was running at ~5fps max. Applications started crashing.

Then Microsoft pulled the support for the phone completely, and one by one, applications stopped working altogether, until all I had was a dumb phone with a crappy camera and a crappy web browser.

It's a shame, really. If they had made it an open platform and allowed users to install Linux, I believe it would have taken over the world.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

#40
I didn’t think Microsoft killed things.

Maybe they’ve changed, but their strategy seemed to be to take something already dead, give it a jolt and Weekend at Bernie’s it under a new name until it starts to smell, then give it a jolt…

E.g. , plays for sure, Zune Music, Groove music, Xbox music. Also Communicator, Lync, Skype, Teams etc.

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