Even if it’s a big company, a service or product will end sooner or later. The Microsoft Graveyard is a place that tells you what services or products Microsoft was working on in the past and when they were completed.
There are 70 cases in total, including 31 apps, 29 services, and 7 hardware. For example, Microsoft Bob, a user-friendly interface for Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT, was born in 1995 and finished in 1996 in just 10 months. Windows 10 and Windows 11 ship with Microsoft Defender Antivirus as Microsoft security software. It can be said that this software is an evolution of Windows Defender, a countermeasure against spyware installed in Windows XP. Prior to this, from 1993 to 1996, there was also Microsoft Anti-Virus for Windows. It was a program introduced for MS-DOS, but is said to have disappeared after being acquired by Symantec.
iLoo is short for Internet Loo, a portable toilet equipped with a function to connect to a wireless network. It was announced by the UK branch on 30 April 2003, aimed at the summer festival season, but was ridiculed and withdrawn 13 days later on 12 May.
Microsoft NetMeeting, a voice and video conferencing client, started in 1996 and ended in 2007. Windows Messenger, an instant messaging service that appeared with Windows XP, started in 2001 and ended in 2008. At that time, there it was Windows Live Messenger, an instant messaging service that developed into MSN Messenger parallel to Windows, which managed to fulfill its role later, but Windows Live Messenger also ended in 2013 all over the world except China, and in China in 2014 Skype ( Has been integrated into Skype) and completely shut down.
Windows Mobile, an operating system for smartphones or PDAs, ended in 2010, and Windows Phone 0, a successor smartphone operating system, also ended support in 2019. Windows 10 Mobile, characterized by the ability to move common apps by doing so, it also ended support in 2019.
In terms of hardware, Microsoft Kinect, which was a motion sensing device that could be used on Xbox and Windows, also ended Xbox One production in 2117. Technologies such as the depth sensor were later used in the MR Hololens device and Azure Kinect was released as a successor technology integrated with the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. Also, the latest is that Skype for Business will end in October 2025. this placecan be found in
