Microsoft - Dead Divisions or Products

Also see: Apple - Dead Divisions or Products

Here is a list of dead, cancelled or discontinued products, services and divisions. Please report items missing from this list.

2017

Windows Phone

Kinect 1

2013

MSN TV (Web TV) 1

2012

Expression 1

Messenger 1

2011

Big Data project 1

Zune 1

Windows Live Gallery 1

Hohm 1

SideKick/Danger service 1

Windows CardSpace (Windows InfoCard) 1

Unnamed flagship project in cloud computing 1

Pivot 1

2010

Bing Maps 3-D Component 1

Silverlight (rendered dead for most purposes) 1

IronPython 1

Live Labs 1

Massive (product and division/unit) 1, 2

Windows Live Spaces (user accounts migrated to another company) 1

Milo 1 (to be confirmed)

Oslo (key portions) 1

Vine 1

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 1

SteadyState 1

IronRuby 1 2

Quadrant 1

KIN 1 (Sidekick problems too)

Expression Media (sold) 1

Slate 1 2

Courier 1 2

Forefront/Stirling 1

Windows Essential Business Server 1

Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 1

Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games 1

2008-2009

Oslo (may be folded 1)

PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Designer (subsumed or became free)

OneCare (renamed/merged into another product)

Office Live (renamed/merged into another product)

Forms Server

Automated Service Agents

Connected Services Framework

Microsoft Works 1

Live Labs 1

RoundTable (now at Polycom)

Razorfish (sold) 1

Numerous developer magazines 1

Book scanning project 1

Questions & Answers Site 1

MSN Music 1

Musiwave 1

ESP (not confirmed) 1

adCenter Analytics 1

Iowa Datacentre 1

Live Search product upload tool 1

Response Point 1 2

Equipt 1

Flight Simulator 1

Channel 8 and Channel 10 1

Office Accounting 1

Microsoft Money 1 2

Soapbox 1 2

Popfly 1 2

Encarta 1

MSN Direct 1

MSN Groups

MSN Web Messenger 1

Ensemble 1 2 3

Recite 1

Dynamics Entrepreneur

Dynamics ERP (mobile version) 1 2