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ILoo Killed almost 19 years ago, iLoo was a smart portable toilet integrating the complete equipment to surf the Internet from inside and outside the cabinet. It was 13 days old. lol
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…
Teams is unbelievably shit though. It’s like they don’t even care.
My experience has been the opposite. But that could have just been that it fitted our setup well. Or that I haven't tried better.
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…
> If they had made it an open platform and allowed users to install Linux, I believe it would have taken over the world. Didn't they, though? With Maemo and later Meego (though maybe I have that swapped)? As it turns out the developer power just isn't there. That's not to say that that wouldn't be the case now, but at least back then, it wasn't able to survive. I was so incredibly excited for my Nokia N900, but at th…
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…
Don't know that I really agree with this. Google does have experimental services and tools that they've killed (RIP Google Reader), but they have always provided migration for their core services. Look at Messaging, for example. Gmail chat -> Hangouts -> Hangouts Chat(?) -> Allo(??) -> Hangouts (again?) -> Android Messages.
The problem is not that they leave users completely stranded, the unending shift from app to app for no good reason is itself the problem.
And to be clear I do think Google is worse at this than Microsoft is. But the important difference isn't over whether they provide a migration path. Forcing your users to migrate every year or two is bad, regardless of whether the migration is handled "well".
How I miss MSN Messenger. They had it so right, until Skype.
When the product was killed, I lost contact with a lot of old friends who weren't online as much.
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.
Microsoft is a polar opposite: they kill unpopular things, monetize popular things, and provide ridiculously long support (and backwards compatibility).
FYI MonoGame is the continuation of XNA and is still used for game development, pretty sure Stardew Valley was made using it. Very approachable “code only” game engine if you already know C#. I’ve been playing with it for a hobby game project and so far everything works perfectly on both Mac and Windows which was surprising, didn’t even have to change a build flag or config file just starting debug on Windows or Mac…
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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.
"Just" is a severe understatement, especially because they switched to the monoculture.