Internet is Beautiful

This really doesn't hit quite as hard. Googles page is just 53 variants of hangouts that each lasted less than 2 years. This is "after 18 years and a full decade of phase out, teams replaced Skype".

Or "we rebranded calendar as outlook after 18 years so technically it's dead but there is a compatible replacement available for free" vs "we shut down this service because we couldn't find a way to shove ads in it"

Windows Subsystem for Android
Killed 18 days ago, Windows Subsystem for Android was a feature of Windows 11 which allows users to install and run Android apps. It was about 3 years old

Ah, so that's what happened to it.

Edit:

Microsoft partnered with Amazon, but without official access to Google’s Play Store [...]. That’s probably a big part of the reason Microsoft has chosen to simply kill off its Android apps on Windows 11.

I assume this list will contain a lot of "Copilot" entries in about two years.

Atom

Still miss you, bud.

RIP Kinect. It should have brilliant but wound up balls.* Alien Isolation* was the only game that used it effectively to my mind.

ILoo was just too early for it's time.

Can't wait to see Teams on that list one day.

Nothing about Live Writer? Has it been that well killed that it's not worth mentioning? ;)

I know MS has open sourced it years ago, but I have not seen much of it in quite a few years...

God, Foldershare was the shit about 2006.

Pick any folder on your PC, share it with a friend anywhere on the internet and it kept them in sync.

The powers that be simply could not tolerate that.

RiP microsoft BOB 😔

I miss minecraft earth and groove music.

Man, using FrontPage and PhotoDraw formed my introduction to web design.

That's one hell of a list though.

What about Skype?

It's funny how this doesn't affect me anymore. Just some months ago I would have looked at this with anxiety, but now it's just entertainment.

Interesting information!

Is Windows on the list?

I snort laughed at "People", but I have this feeling I read a medical professional complain about an unplanned unskippable 3 hour Windows Update cycle in Vista days at a critical moment in health care and.. yeah..

TIL there was a subsystem for Android

These all seem like good decisions to me. Scrolled down for quite a while and couldn't find a single thing I'd want them to keep alive

I used to use publisher over Word, but I suppose its Word has caught up to it now. Sad to see it go.