Microsoft Graveyard, a graveyard for services and products that Microsoft has ended
Even in a large company with a long history, services and products will eventually come to an end. Find out what services and products Microsoft has been dealing with in the past and when it's over at Microsoft Graveyard .
Microsoft Graveyard --Killed by Microsoft
There are 31 apps, 29 services, and 7 hardware, for a total of 70 graves.
For example, in the old days, the user-friendly interface ' Microsoft Bob ' for Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, and Windows NT was born in 1995 and ended in 1996, and it was only 10 months old.
' Microsoft Defender Antivirus ' is installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 as security software made by Microsoft. It can be said that this software is an evolution of the anti-spyware 'Windows Defender' installed in Windows XP, but before that, there was an antivirus software called ' Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows ' from 1993 to 1996. did. It is a program introduced for MS-DOS, and it seems that it was acquired by Symantec and disappeared.
' ILoo ' is an abbreviation for 'Internet Loo' and is a portable toilet with a function to connect to a wireless network. It was announced by a British subsidiary on April 30, 2003 for the summer festival season, but it quickly became a source of laughter, and 13 days later, on May 12, Microsoft described the project as 'a hoax.' Withdrawal. The following day, May 13th, I revised the information, saying, 'The end was decided by the executives, not the hoax.'
According to the material, 'iLoo' looks like this. It was a project that was quite ahead of its time.
The voice / video call conference client ' Microsoft NetMeeting ' was born in 1996 and ended in 2007.
The instant messenger ' Windows Messanger ' that appeared in Windows XP was born in 2001 and ended in 2008.
At this time, Windows had an instant messenger 'Windows Live Messanger' that evolved from 'MSN Messenger' in parallel and took over the later role, but 'Windows Live Messanger' also moved to China in 2013. It ended all over the world except , and in China it was integrated into Skype in 2014 and it was completely finished .
'Windows Mobile,' which was an OS for smartphones and PDAs, ended in 2010.
Support for the smartphone OS 'Windows Phone' that inherited it has ended in 2019. In addition, as a successor OS to `` Windows Phone'', `` Windows 10 Mobile'', which was one of the features that can run common applications by making it a platform unified with `` Windows 10'', will also be supported in 2019 It is finished.
In terms of hardware, Microsoft Kinect, a motion sensing device that can be used on Xbox and Windows, was also discontinued for Xbox One in 2017. In addition, technologies such as depth sensor were subsequently utilized in the MR device 'Hololens', and ' Azure Kinect ' was released as a successor technology integrated with the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform.
The latest one is that 'Skype for Business' will end in October 2025, so although it is not a grave yet, a decapitation stand is prepared.
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