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Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by zozbot234 »

paskozdilar wrote: post #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. Application…

AIUI, you can physically install Linux on the Lumia phones, they're not locked down in any way. It's a matter of hardware support.

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Post by dleslie »

Microsoft Works was an amazing piece of software. Always incredibly fast, with a small footprint, and had enough features to satisfy most personal and business needs.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by farmerstan »

What about killed by Google? I haven’t seen any product enhancements in Nest or Waze in YEARS. It’s the same goddamn product when so much more could be done. I feel stupid for going so in on Nest and seeing nothing enhanced whatsoever. Not even the video access has improved.

The Silicon Valley satire over google being a place to rest and vest is very very real.

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by Marcus10110 »

rvba wrote: post #26
entropie wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not just a rip-off, it's build directly on top of the killedbygoogle repository!

https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft is not a fork, but it has many of the commits from https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle

The earliest commits from fabianoriccardi include git messages like: > replacing "Google" with "Microsoft", removed PressCoverage

Anyway, great code recycling at least right? It's a fun thought that the author of killedbygoogle ultimately wrote most of the code on killed-by-microsoft.

Contributor summary: https://github.com/fabianoriccardi/killed-by-microsoft/graph... https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/graphs/contribut...

Re: Killed by Microsoft

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Post by shireboy »

Kuinox wrote: post #50

Contrary to Google, Microsoft often provide a migration path to another of their service covering the same usecases. Examples: Skype For Business => Teams. Microsoft Edge => Chromium Edge. Windows 10 IoT Core => It's not dead ??? Office Viewer => Web Based Office Kinect => It's not dead ??? Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows => Windows Defender Come on, microsoft has big flaws but backward compat/keeping old product al…

Came here to make this point. Also, killing off products is not unhealthy. I for one am glad that eventually someone had the sense to kill off Bob. Sometimes- like for devs invested in Silverlight- it can be frustrating, but no reason to keep inferior or outdated products afloat.
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