Killed by Microsoft

<p>I must be the only one around here but… Windows Phone wasn’t that great.</p><p><br></p><p>The only thing that really made it different was the tile-based homescreen, and how it would try to gather data together from multiple apps into one place. If you liked that, great I guess.</p><p><br></p><p>But a former company of mine actually did use them for a couple of years and man were they annoying. Enrollment into InTune (you know, Microsoft’s own MDM service) was a nightmare; Airwatch wasn’t much better. The Store would randomly give errors, or apps would just fail to update or start downloading. Sometimes a reboot would cure, sometimes not. We often had to do system updates over USB as the OTA would just hang or error. The stock browser was slow and rubbish. I seem to recall customising the homescreen was a pain too, given the different tile-sizes and if you choose a larger size, it would rearrange all the ones around it.</p><p><br></p><p>It performed better than Android on low-spec devices, like dual-core, 512MB RAM, I’ll give it that. But otherwise I was so glad the day management deviced we’re not going to buy any more and simply go iPhone for the higher-ups and Samsung devices for everyone else…</p>

<p>On the site you linked to there’s quite a few things there I’m not sorry to see gone: <em>Silverlight </em>(pointless Flash competitor); <em>Legacy Edge </em>(slow, buggy); <em>Journal </em>(never used it).</p><p><br></p><p>They should add <em>Microsoft Publisher </em>to the list as it’s as-good-as-dead thesedays.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Windows Messenger </em>was always an odd one. You could use it to connect with users on <em>MSN Messenger</em>, but it wouldn’t support all the features, like the window-shakes, games or in-chat animations.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Microsoft Works</em> was a surprising thing to die as nothing really replaces it. I guess thesedays you could argue the online versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but even-so it’s odd they have no local, cheap offering thesedays.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Windows Movie Maker</em> is an odd one they never kept going. Even just adding support to import and export newer video-formats would have been enough for many.</p><p><br></p><p>That site doesn’t list everything, too. <em>Outlook Express, Program Manager, Cardfile, Pinball, ActiveSync, Briefcase, AutoRoute, Photo Editor, DriveSpace, Write, Imaging for Windows, MSBACKUP and NTBACKUP, Cardspace </em>and <em>DVD Maker </em>are just some I can think of.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Internet Explorer</em> and <em>Windows Media Player </em>will be dead once <em>Windows 10 </em>is gone. <em>Microsoft Security Essentials </em>once <em>Windows 7</em> is gone.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Windows File Manager</em> is one notable example though of an old app returning; you can get a revived version from the <em>Microsoft Store</em>, or on <em>Github<u>.</u></em></p>