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https://killedbyms.com/ Who's still salty about Microsoft killing Zune and Windows Phone? 0.5 x /s
not "salty", since I never had one, but Windows Phone seemed like a good thing which at least locally was making some inroads when they gave up on it again.
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It's just because nobody has contributed to that site. Microsoft has put two bullets in the back of the head of hundreds of products. Here's a different list: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
That site is a bit inaccurate in itself though, case in point Microsoft Teams Progressive Web App https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros... And also, it list things that were consolidated into other apps, I don't know you could say it was killed off, but more moved. (such as Microsoft groups, is just a part of outlook now, and not a standalone app)
Its disappointing and was announced a while ago. I really wish they would have kept it alive much longer... Azure Machine Learning is way more complex and Codespaces not yet available for normal people. Only free alter alternative with private Notebooks is Colab. Paperspace Gradient is awesome, but the free version requires public Notebooks.
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Ironically, Windows Phones clients never fully supported Microsoft's enterprise line -- specifically, the 'Outlook' app did not support shared calendards or even multiple calendars associated with one account. Digging into the application revealed that it re-used an open-source syncing library instead of being a Microsoft-built implementation! Exchange support was the bulk of the appeal for the platform for me, and l…
I've used multiple calenders per account without issue on my Windows phones.
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I've used multiple calenders per account without issue on my Windows phones.
Congratulations, I guess. That support was not present back when Microsoft had a chance at being taken seriously in the mobile space. It's moot now.
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Windows Phone had its annoyances, but I wish they'd held onto it - particularly now with more and more M365 subscription-based ecosystem push. A highly securable device with solid versions of Office, Teams, Outlook, Authenticator and other MS-owned products could actually be viable, and if they keep on with the ARM-based Surface Pro X family then ARM-based processors in phones wouldn't be a big stretch.
Ironically, Windows Phones clients never fully supported Microsoft's enterprise line -- specifically, the 'Outlook' app did not support shared calendards or even multiple calendars associated with one account. Digging into the application revealed that it re-used an open-source syncing library instead of being a Microsoft-built implementation! Exchange support was the bulk of the appeal for the platform for me, and l…
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Congratulations, I guess. That support was not present back when Microsoft had a chance at being taken seriously in the mobile space. It's moot now.
I've been using this feature since I started using Winphones back in 2015.
By 2015, we're talking about Windows Phone 10. After 7, 8, and 8.1, the world was pretty much done with Windows Phone. Microsoft pulled the plug less than two years later.