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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.

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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!

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