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Skype for Business
Going poof in over 1 year, 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.2024
Visual Studio for Mac
Fading into darkness in 4 months, Visual Studio for Mac was a rebranded version of MonoDevelop. Featuring many of the same tools as its Windows counterpart: for example, the Roslyn .NET Compiler Platform was used for refactoring and IntelliSense.Xbox Games Store
Kicking the bucket in 3 months, Xbox Games Store (formerly Xbox Live Marketplace) was a digital distribution platform used by Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game consoles. The service allowed users to download or purchase video games along with other miscellaneous content such as gamer pictures and dashboard themes.Windows Mail
Windows Mail was an email client developed by Microsoft and included in Windows Vista and later versions of Windows.2023
Cortana
Cortana was a virtual assistant developed by Microsoft, that uses the Bing search engine to perform tasks such as setting reminders and answering questions for the user.WordPad
WordPad was a word processor software included with Windows 95 and later, until Windows 11. It was a basic word processor, positioned as more advanced than the Notepad text editor by supporting rich text editing, but with a subset of the functionality of Microsoft Word.Surface Duo
Surface Duo was a dual-touchscreen Android smartphone, part of the Microsoft Surface series of touchscreen hardware devices. It was Microsoft's first smartphone since the dissolution of Microsoft Mobile and the Windows Phone platform.2022
Atom
Atom was a free, open-source and cross-platform text editor developed by GitHub. It featured support support for plug-ins written in JavaScript and embedded Git Control.Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer, also known as IE, was a series of web browsers developed by Microsoft. During it's peak it had a market share of 95%, mostly due to being the default browser for the Windows operating system. The last two decades have resulted in Google Chrome taking it's place as the most used browser, largely because of a better developer experience and the rise of Android.2021
Microsoft Academic
Microsoft Academic was a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature.Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight (or simply Silverlight) was an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash.Minecraft Earth
Minecraft Earth was a Augmented Reality mobile game that allowed its players to collect blocks and build creations.Flight Arcade
Flight Arcade was a web-app clone of Flight Simulator game created as a showcase of Microsoft Edge support for modern HTML5 and JavaScript.2020
Windows 10 IoT Core
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.Mixer
Mixer was a video game live streaming platform, originally named Beam before the acquisition by Microsoft.EdgeHTML
EdgeHTML was a proprietary browser engine used in Microsoft Edge and in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.Wunderlist
Wunderlist was a cloud-based task management application, acquired by Microsoft in June 1, 2015.Remix 3D
Remix 3D was a website for users to browse, distribute, and download 3D objects.2019
Windows Phone
Windows Phone was a family of mobile operating systems for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.Microsoft Band
Microsoft Band was a line of smart bands with smartwatch and activity tracker/fitness tracker features.Zo
Zo was an English chatbot for the principal social networks and messaging apps, born from the experience gained from previous chatbots such as Tay and Xiaoice.2018
Office Excel Viewer
Microsoft Excel Viewer was a freeware program for viewing and printing spreadsheet documents created by Excel.Office PowerPoint Viewer
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.Windows Reader
Windows 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.Microsoft Classroom
Microsoft Classroom was an online learning platform for schools that aimed to simplify grading assignments and student communication in a paperless way.2017
Groove Music Pass
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 was active.Office Word Viewer
Microsoft Word Viewer was a freeware program for Microsoft Windows to display and print Microsoft Word documents.Microsoft Kinect
Kinect was a line of motion sensing input devices for Windows and Xbox consoles.Lumia
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.CodePlex
CodePlex was a hosting platform for open-source software, offering features such as support to different VCS systems, wiki pages, statistics, and releases.Microsoft PhotoSynth
Microsoft PhotoSynth was a program that generates a three-dimensional model and a point cloud from 2D photos.Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker (later rebranded as Windows Live Movie Maker) was a video editing software program for home users.Microsoft Essentials
Windows Essentials (formerly Windows Live Essentials and Windows Live Installer) was a suite of freeware applications that includes email, instant messaging, photo sharing, blogging, and parental control software and it was part of Live brand.2016
Microsoft WebMatrix
Microsoft WebMatrix was a cloud-connected website builder and HTML editor for Windows, geared towards web development.Visual Studio LightSwitch
Visual Studio LightSwitch was an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing .NET technologies.Sunrise Calendar
Sunrise Calendar was a calendar application for web, mobile and desktop, featuring live aggregation of calendars from multiple sources.Windows Journal
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.Microsoft SharePoint Designer
Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, was an HTML editor freeware for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites, workflows and web pages.SharePoint Designer
Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, was an HTML editor freeware for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites, workflows and web pages.Tay
Tay was a chatbot that was shutdown after only 16 hours since it began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account.2015
Microsoft Forefront
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.Zune
Zune was a line of digital media products and services.Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center was a digital video recorder and media player for Windows.2014
Microsoft MapPoint
Microsoft MapPoint was a program and a service created by Microsoft that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps.Microsoft Streets & Trips
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.Microsoft Academic Search
Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and an academic search engine.Games for Windows – Live
Games for Windows – Live (GFWL) was an online gaming service used by Games for Windows–branded PC titles that enables Windows PCs to connect to Microsoft's Live service.PixelSense
PixelSense (formerly called Microsoft Surface) was an interactive surface computing platform that allows one or more people to interact with a tabletop screen.2013
Windows Home Server
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.Zune Marketplace
Zune Marketplace was an online store that offered music, podcasts, TV shows, movies, music videos, and mobile applications.MSN TV
MSN TV (formerly WebTV by WebTV Networks, Inc.) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device which used a television for display and the online service that supported it.Microsoft TechNet
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.Microsoft Office Picture Manager
Microsoft Office Picture Manager (formely Microsoft Picture Library) was a raster graphics editor included up to Office 2010 to organize and edit images.MSN Messenger
MSN Messenger (later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger) was a cross-platform instant messaging client.Windows Live Mesh
Windows Live Mesh (formerly known as Windows Live FolderShare, Live Mesh, and Windows Live Sync) was a file synchronization application supporting both direct PC-to-PC and cloud-based synchronizazion and featuring Remote Desktop capability through the browser.Microsoft XNA
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 360.2012
Microsoft Expression Studio
Microsoft Expression Studio was a suite of tools for designing and building Web and Windows client applications and rich digital media content.Zune (software)
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.Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live Messenger, previously named MSN Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client featuring games, photo albums and social network integrations.Microsoft Reader
Microsoft Reader was an application for reading e-books, specialized for .lit format.Microsoft Live
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.2011
Zune Media Player
Zune was a line of portable media players.Kin
Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking.Windows Live Spaces
Windows Live Spaces was a blogging platform and social network serviceMicrosoft Money
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.2010
Amalga
Microsoft Amalga Hospital Information System (HIS), formerly Hospital 2000, was a fully integrated hospital information system designed for developing and emerging markets.Response Point
Response Point was an advanced VoIP-based telephone system targeting small businesses.Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.Project Origami
Project Origami was an ultra-mobile PC featuring a physical keyboard, a touchpad and a touchscreen.2009
Microsoft Office Accounting
Microsoft Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) was an accounting software application targeting small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.Microsoft Works
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.Encarta
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.Tafiti
Tafiti was an animated search engine launched by Microsoft and TrappsInteractive to showcase the Silverlight animation and video player.2008
MSN Music
MSN Music was a store of music, music news, music videos, spotlights on new music, artist information, and live performances of artists.Live Search Academic
Live Search Academic was a web search engine for scholarly literature that existed, part of Microsoft's Live Search services.Visual Basic
Visual Basic was a third-generation event-driven programming language known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model.Windows Messenger
Windows Messenger was an instant messaging client included in Windows XP and designed for both corporate and home users.2007
Visual J#
Visual J# was a programming language and development tooling which was meant to help Java developers move to the .NET ecosystem.Microsoft NetMeeting
Microsoft NetMeeting was VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client and incorporated technology acquired from Data Connection Ltd and DataBeam Corporation.Office Assistant
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.2006
Microsoft Office FrontPage
Microsoft Office FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows.MSN Chat
MSN Chat was the Microsoft Network version of IRCX (Internet Relay Chat extensions), which replaced Microsoft Chat.Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
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.Microsoft PictureIt!
Microsoft Picture It! was a photo editing application designed for casual users and initially inspired to the wizard user interface concepts of Microsoft Publisher.2004
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 was a vector graphics and raster imaging software.Visual J++
Visual J++ was a Microsoft's implementation of Java which ran only on MSJVM, the proprietary JVM.2003
ILoo
iLoo was a smart portable toilet integrating the complete equipment to surf the Internet from inside and outside the cabinet.Kakuto Chojin
Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal was a fighting game for the Xbox gaming console, retired after few months because its controversial content.2002
Microsoft Data Analyzer
Microsoft Data Analyzer was a program to analyze and visualize data and data trends, and was integrated with SQL Server Analysis Services.2001
Microsoft BackOffice Server
Microsoft BackOffice Server was a computer software package featuring Windows NT Server and other Microsoft server products that ran on NT Server.Microsoft Java Virtual Machine
Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) was a proprietary Java virtual machine.2000
Microsoft Vizact
Microsoft Vizact was a program that allowed creation of interactive documents using HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions).Microsoft Liquid Motion
Microsoft Liquid Motion was an application to create Java animations to compete with Macromedia Flash.ActiMates
ActiMates was a family of interactive stuffed toys which can interact with many episodes of their respective TV shows or on special ActiMates-compatible VHSes and special PC games.DriveSpace
DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) was an OS service to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly.QBasic
QBasic was an integrated development environment and interpreter for a variety of dialects of BASIC which are based on QuickBASIC.1999
Microsoft Comic Chat
Microsoft Comic Chat was a graphical IRC client.1997
Microsoft Cinemania
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.1996