Desktop Software

Programs for the PC and Mac that were discontinued: editors, mail clients, media tools and utilities that once shipped in boxes or as free downloads.

10 projects

Microsoft Security Essentials The free antivirus Microsoft gave Windows XP, Vista and 7 users in 2009, retired with Windows 7 in January 2020 2009–2020 Desktop Software Windows Movie Maker The free video editor a generation learned on, dropped by Microsoft in 2017 2000–2017 Desktop Software Windows Live Writer The blog editor bloggers loved, from Onfolio to Windows Essentials 2012, abandoned by Microsoft and rescued as open source 2006–2017 Desktop Software Aperture Apple's professional photo manager, the first of its kind, dropped for Photos and finally unable to launch 2005–2015 Desktop Software Google Desktop Google search for your own hard drive, plus a sidebar of gadgets, retired when the cloud made it pointless 2004–2011 Desktop Software Microsoft Works The cheap office suite that came with the PC, from a 1986 Macintosh program to Works 9, replaced by Office Starter 1986–2010 Desktop Software Microsoft Money Microsoft's personal finance program, eighteen years against Quicken, ended when the banks went online 1991–2009 Desktop Software Microsoft Plus! The boxed add-on pack that gave Windows its themes, Space Cadet Pinball and the first Internet Explorer, sold from 1995 to 2004 1995–2007 Desktop Software Microsoft FrontPage The web editor that built a generation of home pages, bought from Vermeer in 1996 and retired in 2006 1995–2006 Desktop Software Microsoft Bob A cartoon house instead of a desktop, sold for one year in 1995 1995–1996 Desktop Software