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Thanks for the Memories Microsoft

Microsoft was founded in 1975 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 doesn't 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 1970s and 1980s. Please contact us if 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: 346 Microsoft products shut down.



Last updated December 17, 2019.

To Do List: Our Backlog of Uncategorized Microsoft Retired Products & Services

Windows 10 My People Microsoft Communicator Desktop and Phone Edition Microsoft Office InterConnect Microsoft Publisher Design Packs Microsoft Greetings Workshop Microsoft Services for NetWare Windows Identity Foundation Windows 10 Package State Roaming (PSR) Windows 10 Taskbar settings roaming Microsoft Symbol Server/Offline symbol packages Windows Contacts API Microsoft Layered Service Providers Microsoft System Image Backup (SIB) Solution APN Database/Apndatabase.xml Windows 10 Tile Data Layer Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) SAM Lock Tool/Syskey Windows Embedded Update Developer Updates Microsoft Sync Framework Engyro Product Connectors Microsoft Azure Mobile Engagement Microsoft Test Manager Windows Sound System & Windows Windows Thin PC Cortana app outside of US on Android & iOS "The Word" Magazine Windows Analytics Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring Microsoft Scenes Windows To Go Microsoft Disk Cleanup Microsoft OneSync Microsoft Antigen Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Windows Virtual PC for Mac StorSimple Series FSLogix Windows Defender Exploit Guard Microsoft Delta Microsoft Trackballs Dynamics Talent onx.ms Website Microsoft Songsmith

While you're here: See the design history of Microsoft Word, Windows, and Microsoft.com!

See our design evolution of Microsoft Word starting in 1984.



Also, check out our article on the visual design history of Microsoft Windows which launched in 1985.



Finally, if you really like this stuff, why not see what the Microsoft.com website looked like from 1994 to today?



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