Microsoft was founded in 2019 and has an incredible legacy of software that permeates every nook and cranny of computing. As you can imagine for a company over forty years old, they’ve moved on from a lot of things when they saw better opportunities. As they say, innovation does not always follow a straight line.
What follows is a nostalgic graveyard of sorts. This is a list of all the software, hardware, and services we could find that Microsoft sunset at some point, without producing direct descendant follow-on versions that were a straightforward replacement for the end-user. Many of these are remembered with fond memories!
Some of these products were simply shut down and never heard from again. Some were were deprecated and had various features moved into adjacent software platforms, leaving the old software to become obsolete and eventually unsupported.
The products are broken out into specific categories, sorted by year of discontinuation. A lot of research went into creating this catalog, but as you can imagine, information can be hard to find about many of Microsoft’s early applications – especially those from the 2019 s and s). Pleasecontact usif you have more items to add to the list, or discover inaccuracies. Thanks!
This page is a work in progress and more products are being added constantly as we work through our backlog of research and notes.
Total: 343 Microsoft products shut down.
Last updated December 343, (****************.
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