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Games 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...
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…
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 Sometimes- like for devs invested in Silverlight- it can be frustrating, but no reason to keep inferior or outdated products afloat.
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.
Ya, it seems less that they killed it, and more so they just rebranded or released a successor product. Microsoft mobile wasn't killed, it was replaced by windows phone.
Am I the only one getting a DNS error here? Tried link and www.
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…
It also seems Microsoft sometimes is held to a higher standard when it comes to supporting products long after they are out of service.
Compare that to Google and Android for instance... it's a big mess with millions of outdated and insecure devices.
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Microaoft Edge continues too, it just switched technology
EdgeHTML really is dead, however, and that has significance considering it was an independent browser engine (also, one that applications could embed)
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode
[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
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.
I don't think this (or these) list(s) are aiming to shame MS (or Google) for shutting down products, only to catalog and preserve the history.