Summary: The continued collapse of Microsoft's business as seen based on its products portfolio

TECHRIGHTS no longer covers Microsoft like it used to, so the editorship relies on people informing about important bits of news which were missed. Well, two people -- including my colleague in yesterday's audiocast -- have said that our list of dead Microsoft products ought to be amended to include 3D map viewer in Bing Maps (as well as dumping Silverlight as default, which we covered last week).

News coverage includes:

• Microsoft Bing Maps Drops 3D, Updates Bird's Eye View
• Microsoft drops 3D for Bing Maps
• Bing Maps Now Don't Need Silver Light Plug-in But Lose 3D Too
• Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Reworks Parts Of Bing
• Bing Maps Drops Silverlight Plug-in Reliance
• Bing Maps 3D control plug-in getting the axe, Bird's Eye view to life on
• Microsoft To Drop 3D In Bing, New & Enhanced Bird’s Eye Is The Focus
• Changes to Bird’s eye and 3D Maps

The last one is from Microsoft itself. On average, Microsoft kills one of it products every two weeks. It's the hallmark of a dying company. ⬆