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I like seeing the list of services, but I wish it was called "Microsoft Graveyard" instead of "Killed by Microsoft". Some of those wouldn't be around today regardless of the controlling organization, such as Silverlight and Encarta. To me, "Killed by Microsoft" makes it sound like Microsoft chose to discontinue a product that otherwise would still be "alive" today.

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It isn't even fair to say that some of these products are dead. For example, you can still use Microsoft Streets & Trips today, as it's from an era when you bought (rather than rented) software. It's just not getting any more updates, so its usefulness diminishes as the road network changes.

Microaoft Edge continues too, it just switched technology

EdgeHTML really is dead, however, and that has significance considering it was an independent browser engine (also, one that applications could embed)

Edge is still IE11 compatible[1] and still provides an embeddable component (WebView2)[2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/edge-ie-mode

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

That doesn’t really change the fact that what was called EdgeHTML is gone and it was replaced by a program that has an entirely different lineage, API, user interface, feature set... I am definitely aware of WebView2, I even maintain bindings for it for Go!

This does feel like a somewhat bilious [anti-?]fanboy counter to the Google Graveyard website.

Is the Google Graveyard not itself bilious?

I get a bit of a "This food is so horrible and the portions are so small!" vibe from it.

Yeah, there should be a KilledByApple website that includes Zune.

Your point is well taken. Apple got a few good blows back at Microsoft.

When I first saw the title "Killed by Microsoft" I thought it was a list of products from other companies that Microsoft killed - not products from Microsoft that Microsoft ended.

"Microsoft Graveyard" is a better name given Microsoft's history of killing other companies and their products. Or make the list really products that Microsoft killed. That would be a much longer list.

MS Graveyard is exactly how they’d name it too lol. Well done.

*Microsoft Active Azure Graveyard for Products - Enterprise Edition 2022 .Net

The HTML <title>, site header, and domain are all clearly made to parallel https://killedbygoogle.com/

The only difference is .info vs .com .

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