The most drastic example is the possibility to try older versions of Windows and macOS in your browser. But as in fiction, nothing dies in the world of software thanks to the internet and old software repositories.

Microsoft's last stroke was to remove the executable from its servers in early 2017. But out of the integration was Movie Maker. įrom there it was decided to integrate, in part, in Windows 8 and stop offering it separately. Launched as such in 2005, it had several versions with different applications included. Similar situation lived the package Windows Live Essentials or Windows Essentials, a Microsoft combo that included the mentioned Messenger but also SkyDrive (now OneDrive), a photo app, another to write, a mail manager the popular Movie Maker, a home app to edit video in Windows.

How difficult it is to get your program or game to succeed and we find incomprehensible situations such as the closure of Messenger (also known as Windows Live Messenger, Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger), a very popular messaging application that died early because of Microsoft's decision to prioritize Skype.

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