Listen to music on your own Zunemake a call with your own Windows Phonerun using your own Microsoft Band. You can’t: these are just some of the products Microsoft canceled in recent years. And there are so many that someone has decided to create aGraveyard‘online with all products and services Killed by Microsoft.
Killed by Microsoft, the graveyard of technology canceled by Redmond
Whoever created the Killed by Microsoft site did so for a clear purpose. To become “a source of concrete information on the history surrounding Microsoft’s abandoned projects”. The open source project can help those who use old programs or devices to understand if Microsoft actually still supports them. But impossible not to read even one the press around.
Microsoft has in fact opened and closed several projects in recent years (a bit like rival Google). And others will close: in the Microsoft Cemetery we already find Skype for Business, which will remain supported until October 2025.
But some stopped working years ago: how to forget about Zune Media Playerretired in 2011 after five years of everyone buying only iPods?
But among the hardware there are also there Microsoft Banddecommissioned in 2014. Or the Kinect, which made us play for seven years. And many will remember the attempt to launch Microsoft’s telephony with the line Lumiawhich has now given way to iPhones and Android smartphones for 4 years.
Some of the products have closed for reasons other than failure. Among the “victims” of Microsoft is the version EdgeHTML del browser Edge, replaced by the better performing version based on Chromium. Others like Office PowerPoint Viewer they have become obsolete now that any browser can open PowerPoint online.
But tech-lovers like us could waste hours seeing all of Microsoft’s closed projects. And then remember to also close this article and publish it: be careful not to get lost in Microsoft’s graveyard!