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2025

Skype for Business

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.

2007-10-27 - 2025-10-14 service

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.

2017-05-10 - 2024-08-31 app

Xbox Games Store

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.

2005-11-01 - 2024-07-29 service

Windows Mail

Windows Mail was an email client developed by Microsoft and included in Windows Vista and later versions of Windows.

2006-11-30 - 2024-03-01 app

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.

2014-04-14 - 2023-12-31 software

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.

1995-01-01 - 2023-12-31 software

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.

2020-09-10 - 2023-09-10 hardware

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.

2014-02-26 - 2022-12-15 software

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.

1995-08-16 - 2022-06-15 software

2021

Microsoft Academic

Microsoft Academic was a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature.

2016-02-22 - 2021-12-31 service

Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight (or simply Silverlight) was an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash.

2005-09-05 - 2021-10-12 service

Minecraft Earth

Minecraft Earth was a Augmented Reality mobile game that allowed its players to collect blocks and build creations.

2019-10-17 - 2021-06-30 app

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.

2015-05-01 - 2021-04-17 app

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.

2016-08-02 - 2020-11-10 app

Mixer

Mixer was a video game live streaming platform, originally named Beam before the acquisition by Microsoft.

2016-01-05 - 2020-07-22 service

EdgeHTML

EdgeHTML was a proprietary browser engine used in Microsoft Edge and in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.

2014-11-12 - 2020-05-27 service

Wunderlist

Wunderlist was a cloud-based task management application, acquired by Microsoft in June 1, 2015.

2010-11-09 - 2020-05-06 service

Remix 3D

Remix 3D was a website for users to browse, distribute, and download 3D objects.

2016-10-26 - 2020-01-10 service

2019

Windows Phone

Windows Phone was a family of mobile operating systems for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.

2010-10-21 - 2019-12-16 service

Microsoft Band

Microsoft Band was a line of smart bands with smartwatch and activity tracker/fitness tracker features.

2014-10-14 - 2019-05-31 hardware

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.

2016-12-06 - 2019-03-01 service

2018

Office Excel Viewer

Microsoft Excel Viewer was a freeware program for viewing and printing spreadsheet documents created by Excel.

1999-01-01 - 2018-04-30 app

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.

1999-01-01 - 2018-04-30 app

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.

2011-12-07 - 2018-02-16 app

Microsoft Classroom

Microsoft Classroom was an online learning platform for schools that aimed to simplify grading assignments and student communication in a paperless way.

2016-04-01 - 2018-01-31 service

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.

2006-11-14 - 2017-12-31 service

Office Word Viewer

Microsoft Word Viewer was a freeware program for Microsoft Windows to display and print Microsoft Word documents.

1999-03-17 - 2017-11-30 app

Microsoft Kinect

Kinect was a line of motion sensing input devices for Windows and Xbox consoles.

2010-11-04 - 2017-10-25 hardware

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.

2011-11-01 - 2017-10-01 hardware

CodePlex

CodePlex was a hosting platform for open-source software, offering features such as support to different VCS systems, wiki pages, statistics, and releases.

2006-05-01 - 2017-10-01 service

Microsoft PhotoSynth

Microsoft PhotoSynth was a program that generates a three-dimensional model and a point cloud from 2D photos.

2008-08-20 - 2017-02-06 app

Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker (later rebranded as Windows Live Movie Maker) was a video editing software program for home users.

2000-09-14 - 2017-01-17 service

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.

2008-08-25 - 2017-01-10 service

2016

Microsoft WebMatrix

Microsoft WebMatrix was a cloud-connected website builder and HTML editor for Windows, geared towards web development.

2003-01-01 - 2016-10-28 app

Visual Studio LightSwitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch was an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing .NET technologies.

2011-07-26 - 2016-10-14 app

Sunrise Calendar

Sunrise Calendar was a calendar application for web, mobile and desktop, featuring live aggregation of calendars from multiple sources.

2013-02-19 - 2016-09-13 app

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.

2002-01-01 - 2016-08-09 app

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.

2006-11-30 - 2016-08-02 software

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.

2006-11-30 - 2016-08-02 app

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.

2016-03-23 - 2016-03-24 service

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.

2007-01-01 - 2015-12-01 app

Zune

Zune was a line of digital media products and services.

2006-11-14 - 2015-11-15 service

Windows Media Center

Windows Media Center was a digital video recorder and media player for Windows.

2002-01-01 - 2015-05-01 service

2014

Microsoft MapPoint

Microsoft MapPoint was a program and a service created by Microsoft that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps.

2000-01-01 - 2014-12-31 service

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.

1988-01-01 - 2014-07-07 app

Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft Academic Search was a research project and an academic search engine.

2009-01-01 - 2014-07-01 service

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.

2007-05-29 - 2014-07-01 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.

2008-04-17 - 2014-01-01 hardware

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.

2007-11-04 - 2013-12-31 service

Zune Marketplace

Zune Marketplace was an online store that offered music, podcasts, TV shows, movies, music videos, and mobile applications.

2006-11-14 - 2013-11-22 service

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.

1996-09-18 - 2013-09-30 service

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.

1998-01-01 - 2013-08-31 service

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.

2003-08-19 - 2013-04-08 app

MSN Messenger

MSN Messenger (later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger) was a cross-platform instant messaging client.

1999-07-22 - 2013-02-15 app

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.

2010-09-30 - 2013-02-13 app

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.

2006-03-14 - 2013-01-31 app

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.

2006-09-16 - 2012-12-20 app

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.

2006-01-01 - 2012-10-16 app

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.

1999-06-22 - 2012-08-07 service

Microsoft Reader

Microsoft Reader was an application for reading e-books, specialized for .lit format.

2000-08-01 - 2012-08-01 app

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.

2005-11-01 - 2012-05-05 service

2011

Zune Media Player

Zune was a line of portable media players.

2006-11-14 - 2011-10-03 hardware

Kin

Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking.

2010-05-14 - 2011-08-01 hardware

Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces was a blogging platform and social network service

2004-04-01 - 2011-03-16 service

Microsoft 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.

1991-10-02 - 2011-01-31 service

2010

Amalga

Microsoft Amalga Hospital Information System (HIS), formerly Hospital 2000, was a fully integrated hospital information system designed for developing and emerging markets.

1997-01-01 - 2010-07-22 service

Response Point

Response Point was an advanced VoIP-based telephone system targeting small businesses.

2007-10-01 - 2010-05-14 software

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.

2000-04-19 - 2010-02-02 service

Project Origami

Project Origami was an ultra-mobile PC featuring a physical keyboard, a touchpad and a touchscreen.

2006-02-25 - 2010-02-01 hardware

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.

2007-01-01 - 2009-11-16 app

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.

1988-01-01 - 2009-10-01 app

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.

1993-01-01 - 2009-01-01 app

Tafiti

Tafiti was an animated search engine launched by Microsoft and TrappsInteractive to showcase the Silverlight animation and video player.

2007-01-01 - 2009-01-01 service

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.

2002-02-18 - 2008-08-31 service

Live Search Academic

Live Search Academic was a web search engine for scholarly literature that existed, part of Microsoft's Live Search services.

2006-04-01 - 2008-06-01 service

Visual Basic

Visual Basic was a third-generation event-driven programming language known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model.

1991-01-01 - 2008-04-01 service

Windows Messenger

Windows Messenger was an instant messaging client included in Windows XP and designed for both corporate and home users.

2001-01-01 - 2008-01-01 app

2007

Visual J#

Visual J# was a programming language and development tooling which was meant to help Java developers move to the .NET ecosystem.

2002-07-01 - 2007-05-18 software

Microsoft NetMeeting

Microsoft NetMeeting was VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client and incorporated technology acquired from Data Connection Ltd and DataBeam Corporation.

1996-05-29 - 2007-03-22 software

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.

1996-01-01 - 2007-01-01 software

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