Died in 2017

Windows Movie Maker The free video editor a generation learned on, dropped by Microsoft in 2017 2000–2017 Desktop Software Windows Live Mail The free desktop mail program that replaced Outlook Express, cut off from Outlook.com in 2016 and left to die in 2017 2007–2017 Email & Groups 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 Vine Six seconds, looped forever 2013–2017 Video & Streaming Parse 500,000 apps had their back end switched off 2011–2017 Developer Tools Photosynth Microsoft Live Labs' 3D photo stitcher, a jaw-dropping demo in 2006, a website from 2008, switched off in February 2017 2006–2017 Photo Sharing App.net Users paid for it, and it still was not enough 2012–2017 Social Networks DMOZ The web, catalogued by hand 1998–2017 Search Engines & Directories Club Penguin A generation's first social network, with penguins 2005–2017 Games Nintendo DSi The DS with two cameras, an SD slot and its own download shop, which Nintendo closed in 2017 and took DSiWare with it 2008–2017 Consoles & Handhelds Google Spaces Google's small-group sharing app that lived for eleven months, which was short even for Google 2016–2017 Messengers About.com Seven hundred human guides, four owners, one quiet rebrand 1997–2017 Reference & Learning Yik Yak Anonymous, local, and impossible to moderate 2013–2017 Social Networks Delicious The web's shared memory 2003–2017 Web Technologies & Tools Google Talk Gchat, the messenger inside your inbox 2005–2017 Messengers Google Blob Emoji Android's yellow blobs, the only emoji set that looked like nothing else, flattened into circles by Android 8.0 in 2017 2013–2017 Web Technologies & Tools Half.com It once bought a whole town for its name 2000–2017 E-commerce & Retail Shareaza The client whose own name was stolen 2002–2017 File Sharing Nokia Lumia Nokia's bright Windows Phones, and the bet that took the company down with them 2011–2017 Phones & Tablets X Xbox Live Indie Games The Xbox 360 store where anyone with $99 and XNA could sell a game, from Community Games in 2008 to the last day in October 2017 2008–2017 Game Platforms & Services Kinect "You are the controller": the fastest-selling gadget of 2010, unplugged by 2017 2010–2017 Gadgets & Hardware LoveFilm Europe's Netflix by post: DVDs in red envelopes, bought by Amazon and closed disc by disc 2002–2017 E-commerce & Retail Miiverse Nintendo's hand-drawn social network 2012–2017 Social Networks Firebug Gave every browser the F12 key, then merged into them 2006–2017 Developer Tools Juicero The $400 Wi-Fi juicer that squeezed proprietary bags, and the bags you could squeeze by hand 2016–2017 Gadgets & Hardware AIM Away messages and slammed doors 1997–2017 Messengers CodePlex Microsoft's open source home, closed because GitHub won 2006–2017 Developer Tools Vidme The YouTube alternative for creators fleeing the adpocalypse, out of money in December 2017; its domain now points at porn 2014–2017 Video & Streaming Groove Music Microsoft's music service after Zune, renamed twice and handed to Spotify 2012–2017 Music Streaming