Killed by Microsoft

October
2025
Skype for Business
Like a fork stuck in the outlet in over 3 years, Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync and Office Communicator) was an enterprise instant messaging software developed by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office suite. It was almost 18 years old.
2016 - 2021
Microsoft Academic
Killed 3 months ago, Microsoft Academic was a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature. It was almost 6 years old.
2005 - 2021
Silverlight
Killed 6 months ago, Microsoft Silverlight (or simply Silverlight) was an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash. It was about 16 years old.
2019 - 2021
Minecraft Earth
Killed 9 months ago, Minecraft Earth was a Augmented Reality mobile game that allowed its players to collect blocks and build creations. It was over 1 year old.
2015 - 2021
Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML)
Killed about 1 year ago, Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser and it is the successor of Internet Explorer. It was almost 6 years old.
2016 - 2020
Windows 10 IoT Core
Killed over 1 year ago, Windows 10 IoT Core was an embedded OS for smaller and lower-cost industry devices, it was also provided free of charge for use in devices like the Raspberry Pi for hobbyist use. It was over 4 years old.
2016 - 2020
Mixer
Killed over 1 year ago, Mixer was a video game live streaming platform, originally named Beam before the acquisition by Microsoft. It was over 4 years old.
2010 - 2020
Wunderlist
Killed almost 2 years ago, Wunderlist was a cloud-based task management application, acquired by Microsoft in June 1, 2015. It was over 9 years old.
2016 - 2020
Remix 3D
Killed about 2 years ago, Remix 3D was a website for users to browse, distribute, and download 3D objects. It was about 3 years old.
2010 - 2019
Windows Phone
Killed over 2 years ago, Windows Phone was a family of mobile operating systems for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. It was about 9 years old.
2014 - 2019
Microsoft Band
Killed almost 3 years ago, Microsoft Band was a line of smart bands with smartwatch and activity tracker/fitness tracker features. It was over 4 years old.
1999 - 2018
Office Excel Viewer
Killed almost 4 years ago, Microsoft Excel Viewer was a freeware program for viewing and printing spreadsheet documents created by Excel. It was over 19 years old.
1999 - 2018
Office PowerPoint Viewer
Killed almost 4 years ago, PowerPoint Viewer was a free application to be used on computers without PowerPoint installed, to view, project, or print (but not create or edit) presentations. It was over 19 years old.
2011 - 2018
Microsoft Reader
Killed about 4 years ago, Microsoft Reader was an app to read PDF, XPS and TIFF files by Microsoft. It was killed in favour of Edge's implementation of PDF reading ability. It was about 6 years old.
2016 - 2018
Microsoft Classroom
Killed about 4 years ago, Microsoft Classroom was an online learning platform for schools that aimed to simplify grading assignments and student communication in a paperless way. It was almost 2 years old.
2006 - 2017
Groove Music Pass
Killed about 4 years ago, Groove Music Pass (formerly Xbox Music Pass and, before, Zune Music Pass) was a music subscription service, which allows subscribers to download an unlimited number of songs for as long as their subscription is active. It was about 11 years old.
1999 - 2017
Office Word Viewer
Killed over 4 years ago, Microsoft Word Viewer was a freeware program for Microsoft Windows to display and print Microsoft Word documents. It was over 18 years old.
2010 - 2017
Microsoft Kinect
Killed over 4 years ago, Kinect was a line of motion sensing input devices for Windows and Xbox consoles. It was almost 7 years old.
2011 - 2017
Lumia
Killed over 4 years ago, Microsoft Lumia (previously the Nokia Lumia Series) was a line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by Nokia and later by Microsoft Mobile. It was almost 6 years old.
2006 - 2017
CodePlex
Killed over 4 years ago, CodePlex was a hosting platform for open-source software, offering features such as support to different SVC systems, wiki pages, statistics, and releases. It was over 11 years old.
2008 - 2017
Microsoft PhotoSynth
Killed about 5 years ago, Microsoft PhotoSynth was a program that generates a three-dimensional model and a point cloud from 2D photos. It was over 8 years old.
2000 - 2017
Windows Movie Maker
Killed about 5 years ago, Windows Movie Maker (later rebranded as Windows Live Movie Maker) was a video editing software program for home users. It was over 16 years old.
2008 - 2017
Microsoft Essentials
Killed about 5 years ago, Windows Essentials (formerly Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer) is a discontinued suite of freeware applications that includes email, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, and parental control software and it was part of Live brand. It was over 8 years old.
2003 - 2016
Microsoft WebMatrix
Killed over 5 years ago, Microsoft WebMatrix was a cloud-connected website builder and HTML editor for Windows, geared towards web development. It was almost 14 years old.
2002 - 2016
Windows Journal
Killed over 5 years ago, Windows Journal was an application to create and organize handwritten notes and drawing, included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition as well as select editions of Windows Vista and later. It was over 14 years old.
2007 - 2015
Microsoft Forefront
Killed over 6 years ago, Microsoft Forefront was a family of line-of-business security software designed to help protect computer networks, network servers and individual devices, which underlying technology was acquired from Sybari in 2005. It was almost 9 years old.
2006 - 2015
Zune
Killed over 6 years ago, Zune was a line of digital media products and services. It was about 9 years old.
2002 - 2015
Windows Media Center
Killed almost 7 years ago, Windows Media Center was a digital video recorder and media player for Windows. It was over 13 years old.
2000 - 2014
Microsoft MapPoint
Killed about 7 years ago, Microsoft MapPoint was a program and a service created by Microsoft that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps. It was almost 15 years old.
1988 - 2014
Microsoft Streets & Trips
Killed over 7 years ago, Microsoft Streets & Trips (Microsoft AutoRoute) was a mapping program targeting the average consumer to do a variety of map related tasks in the North American region, such as route planning. It was over 26 years old.
2009 - 2014
Microsoft Academic Search
Killed over 7 years ago, Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and an academic search engine. It was over 5 years old.
2008 - 2014
PixelSense
Killed about 8 years ago, PixelSense (formerly called Microsoft Surface) was an interactive surface computing platform that allows one or more people to interact with a tabletop screen. It was over 5 years old.
2007 - 2013
Windows Home Server
Killed about 8 years ago, Windows Home Server was intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, print server, and remote access. It was about 6 years old.
2006 - 2013
Zune Marketplace
Killed over 8 years ago, Zune Marketplace was an online store that offered music, podcasts, TV shows, movies, music videos, and mobile applications. It was about 7 years old.
1998 - 2013
Microsoft TechNet
Killed over 8 years ago, Microsoft TechNet was a Microsoft web portal and web service for IT professionals, containing documentation for Microsoft products, discussion forums, an evaluation center for downloading trialware, blogs for Microsoft employees and much more. It was over 15 years old.
2003 - 2013
Microsoft Office Picture Manager
Killed almost 9 years ago, Microsoft Office Picture Manager (formely Microsoft Picture Library) was a raster graphics editor included up to Office 2010 to organize and edit images. It was over 9 years old.
1999 - 2013
MSN Messenger
Killed about 9 years ago, MSN Messenger (later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger) was a cross-platform instant messaging client. It was over 13 years old.
2006 - 2013
Microsoft XNA
Killed about 9 years ago, Microsoft XNA was a freeware set of tools with a managed runtime environment provided by Microsoft that facilitates video game development and management, based on the .NET Framework, with versions that run on Windows NT, Windows Phone and the Xbox 360. It was almost 7 years old.
2006 - 2012
Microsoft Expression Studio
Killed over 9 years ago, Microsoft Expression Studio was a suite of tools for designing and building Web and Windows client applications and rich digital media content. It was over 6 years old.
2006 - 2012
Zune (software)
Killed over 9 years ago, Zune (software) was a media management software that functions as a full media player application with a library, an interface to the Zune Marketplace, and as a media streaming server. It was almost 7 years old.
2000 - 2012
Microsoft Reader
Killed over 9 years ago, Microsoft Reader was an application for reading e-books, specialized for .lit format. It was about 12 years old.
2005 - 2012
Microsoft Live
Killed almost 10 years ago, Microsoft Live was a brand-name for a set of web services and software products from Microsoft as part of its software plus services platform. It was over 6 years old.
2006 - 2011
Zune Media Player
Killed over 10 years ago, Zune was a line of portable media players. It was almost 5 years old.
2010 - 2011
Kin
Killed over 10 years ago, Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking. It was about 1 year old.
1991 - 2011
Microsoft Money
Killed about 11 years ago, Microsoft Money was a personal finance management software program. It has capabilities for viewing bank account balances, creating budgets, and tracking expenses, among other features. It was over 19 years old.
2007 - 2010
Response Point
Killed almost 12 years ago, Response Point was an advanced VoIP-based telephone system targeting small businesses. It was over 2 years old.
2000 - 2010
Windows Mobile
Killed about 12 years ago, Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs. It was almost 10 years old.
2007 - 2009
Microsoft Office Accounting
Killed over 12 years ago, Microsoft Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) was an accounting software application targeting small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees. It was almost 3 years old.
1988 - 2009
Microsoft Works
Killed over 12 years ago, Microsoft Works was an intuitive and cheap alternative to Office. It included a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system. Later versions had a calendar application and a dictionary. It was almost 22 years old.
1993 - 2009
Encarta
Killed about 13 years ago, Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia, originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, then available on the internet via a subscription, and finally turned into free and supported by advertisements. It was about 16 years old.
2007 - 2009
Tafiti
Killed about 13 years ago, Tafiti was an animated search engine launched by Microsoft and TrappsInteractive to showcase the Silverlight animation and video player. It was about 2 years old.
2002 - 2008
MSN Music
Killed over 13 years ago, MSN Music was a store of music, music news, music videos, spotlights on new music, artist information, and live performances of artists. It was over 6 years old.
2006 - 2008
Live Search Academic
Killed almost 14 years ago, Live Search Academic was a web search engine for scholarly literature that existed, part of Microsoft's Live Search services. It was about 2 years old.
1991 - 2008
Visual Basic
Killed almost 14 years ago, Visual Basic was a third-generation event-driven programming language known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It was over 17 years old.
2001 - 2008
Windows Messenger
Killed about 14 years ago, Windows Messenger was an instant messaging client included in Windows XP and designed for both corporate and home users. It was about 7 years old.
1996 - 2007
Microsoft NetMeeting
Killed about 15 years ago, Microsoft NetMeeting was VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client and incorporated technology acquired from Data Connection Ltd and DataBeam Corporation. It was almost 11 years old.
1996 - 2007
Office Assistant
Killed about 15 years ago, Office Assistant was an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content. The most famous avatar was Clippit (a.k.a. Clippy), an humanized paperclip. It was about 11 years old.
1995 - 2006
Microsoft Office FrontPage
Killed over 15 years ago, Microsoft Office FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows. It was about 11 years old.
1994 - 2006
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
Killed about 16 years ago, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) was a source control program oriented towards small software development projects, originally created by One Tree Software prior to Microsoft acquisition in 1994. It was about 12 years old.
1999 - 2004
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000
Killed over 17 years ago, Microsoft was a vector graphics and raster imaging software. It was over 5 years old.
2003 - 2003
ILoo
Killed almost 19 years ago, iLoo was a smart portable toilet integrating the complete equipment to surf the Internet from inside and outside the cabinet. It was 13 days old.
2001 - 2002
Microsoft Data Analyzer
Killed about 19 years ago, Microsoft Data Analyzer was a program to analyze and visualize data and data trends, and was integrated with SQL Server Analysis Services. It was about 1 year old.
1994 - 2001
Microsoft BackOffice Server
Killed over 20 years ago, Microsoft BackOffice Server was a computer software package featuring Windows NT Server and other Microsoft server products that ran on NT Server. It was about 7 years old.
1997 - 2001
Microsoft Java Virtual Machine
Killed about 21 years ago, Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) was a proprietary Java virtual machine. It was about 4 years old.
1999 - 2000
Microsoft Vizact
Killed almost 22 years ago, Microsoft Vizact was a program that allowed creation of interactive documents using HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions). It was 10 months old.
1998 - 2000
Microsoft Liquid Motion
Killed about 22 years ago, Microsoft Liquid Motion was an application to create Java animations to compete with Macromedia Flash. It was about 2 years old.
1996 - 1999
Microsoft Comic Chat
Killed about 23 years ago, Microsoft Comic Chat was a graphical IRC client. It was over 2 years old.
1992 - 1997
Microsoft Cinemania
Killed about 25 years ago, Microsoft Cinemania was an application distributed on CD-ROMs that shown information about films such as images, sound clips, dialogues, sound tracks and some full motion video clips. It was about 5 years old.
1993 - 1996
Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows
Killed almost 26 years ago, Microsoft Anti-Virus (MSAV) was an antivirus program introduced for MS-DOS operating system, finally acquired and dismissed by Symantec. It was about 3 years old.
1995 - 1996
Microsoft Bob
Killed about 26 years ago, Microsoft Bob was a user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems. It was 10 months old.

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