many of us have been in a spot where we are working on some code that’s out of date compared to the rest, is used by almost no one, and makes no impact for the business. yet we maintain because we have too. and we wish someone could be brave enough to just kill it. i’ve been at a few jobs where i would have been happy to see a graveyard like this
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#72Contrary 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…
There was also MSN messenger, which was more capable than Skype other than the connection to the actual telephone network (having messages be delivered later without requiring both people to be online at the same time - amazing!) and when Teams replaced Skype, even more features were dropped. What part of that is positive other than "well, you can still do some of the things but we prefer to give you an inferior product".
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#73Contrary 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…
Also, if you have access to the executable then you can use it indefinitely (with obvious caveats).
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#74No mention of FoxPro? I remember going to some sort of expo and winning a copy of visual FoxPro in a big box with lots of manuals and all the software on floppy disks.
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#75Contrary 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 came away with the same conclusion reading this and the Google sites, but I do feel like these sites nonetheless do a public service aggregating and organizing this kind of information, even if it feels pointed at MS/Google specifically.
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#76It's missing Atom editor, it was my favorite text editor, now it's abandoned to death on github. They stop working on it the day they bought Github.
I still remember Nat Friedman here in the comment section saying he won't stop developing Atom. He didn't even keep on his promise for a week.
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#78Contrary 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…
Teams is unbelievably shit though. It’s like they don’t even care.
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#79Also:
* Windows POSIX Subsystem: WSL has similar features, but not exact what the POSIX Subsystem is.
* Windows OS / 2 Subsystem: Killed.
* Multipoint Server: Killed in server 2016.
* Hyper-V RemoteFX
* WDS boot.wim deployment: Killed in server 2022 and Windows 11, although MDT provides a much better solution.
* TFS: MS wants you to use Azure DevOps.
* Hyper-V Server: The free ESXi alternative. MS wants you to use Azure, so it is killed with the release of server 2022.
* Microsoft Security Essentials: Killed in Jan. 2020, and its signature updates will stop in 2023.
* Windows CE: Replaced by Windows IoT
* Aero: Such a beautiful effect. Killed in Windows 8.
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#80I really miss Microsoft Systems Journal, Microsoft Internet Developer, and MSDN Magazine.