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Killed by Microsoft
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#82Not killed exactly, but I hate what they've done to Minecraft. It used to be something kind of unique, a game experience that was universal among kids. They paid $1.6B to gate it behind a microsoft.com account and force schoolkids and school districts in to the MS ecosystem.
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#83How I miss MSN Messenger. They had it so right, until Skype.
It was beautiful! My childhood's best IM, apart from IRC.
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#84Contrary 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 to say the same. The vast majority of these were superseded by new products or their feature set was absorbed by other tooling. Back office was one of the worst examples. It became baked into Windows Server except Exchange.
I’m no fan of MS, but they tend to err on the side of overextending support and backwards compatibility. I would have killed Works 10 years before they did.
And some of these are just failures. I still have my MS Bob floppies, but come on.
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#85Still like/use MS Money. Strangely the lack of updates or support means nothing.
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#86Zune is on there twice. Speaking of Zune, I loved it. I know it got a lot of shit for being an also ran against the iPod, but it was a seriously solid media player and I found it better than the iPod in many ways. Zune software was always gorgeous, had an innovative subscription model (you get to keep some DRM free songs every month forever, even if you cancel the sub. Wish Spotify did that.) and felt innovative comp…
I wish I had kept my Dell DJ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Digital_Jukebox
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#87Add to the list:
VSTA (visual studio tools for application). C#/VB.net integrated IDE which was meant to run in parallel to VBA (and I think ultimately replace it).
Microsoft Solver Foundation: an abstraction over in house and commercial solvers (Google OR Tools is a neat similar effort by the way)
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#88I 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…
Some background reading on Nokia's demise under Microsoft:
https://mobilesyrup.com/2014/08/14/ex-nokia-exec-tomi-ahonen...
There are great links at the bottom of that page to Tomi Ahonen's exhaustive coverage of Microsoft's destruction of Nokia's lucrative, profitable business model.
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#89Contrary 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 wish more things like Silverlight were open sourced for the community at EOL.
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#90but is anyone really mourning the loss of Bob?