This is EVERYTHING Microsoft killed in 2024 — from handy apps to failed devices

[Windows Central]

Every year, Microsoft deprecates, removes, and kills various apps, services, and devices. Here's what hit the chopping block in 2024.

This is EVERYTHING Microsoft killed in 2024 — from handy apps to failed devices : Read more

 

[Gabe Szabo]

Also retired Azure Media Services, and Azure Lab Services announced to be sunset in 2027, among others. Mostly compute-heavy or GPU-heavy workloads.

 

[K Shan]

This is why I get nervous about Microsoft's "This is an Xbox" strategy.

 

[taynjack]

Some of these were DOA thats to Microsoft's incapability to execute anything successfully. The Studio has so much potential but almost outdated technology isn't for anyone. They should make it a touch external monitor.

So many people have been clamoring for a stand alone monitor only because Microsoft won't give the studio the specs it deserves. Do one or the other Microsoft! Why does Microsoft refuse to listen to their users!!! We keep telling them what we want, and they give us 3/4 of our request. Then they wonder why people are reluctant to buy their stuff. This is why Apple does so well. Apple gives everything asked for or nothing at all. Microsoft can't finish anything!

 

[naddy69]

"Why does Microsoft refuse to listen to their users!!!"

But Microsoft DOES listen to their users. Their users are businesses. No business is asking for an expensive MS monitor.

Businesses are asking for Windows, Office, Azure, Exchange Server and SQL Server. That's it. You know, software. MicroSOFT.

Not phones. Not music streaming services. Not watches. Not movies. Not monitors. Not PCs.

"This is why Apple does so well."

Because Apple IS a consumer-focused company. MS is not and never will be. Spend millions of dollars a year with MS and MS will listen to you. BTW, MS is also doing very well.

"Then they wonder why people are reluctant to buy their stuff. "

MS does not care about "people". Only businesses. Why is this so hard to understand?

You might as well demand that Oracle sell phones and monitors. Or IBM. Or ADP. Or Cisco. Or SAP.

 

[Arun Topez]

So many people have been clamoring for a stand alone monitor only because Microsoft won't give the studio the specs it deserves. Do one or the other Microsoft! Why does Microsoft refuse to listen to their users!!! We keep telling them what we want, and they give us 3/4 of our request. Then they wonder why people are reluctant to buy their stuff. This is why Apple does so well. Apple gives everything asked for or nothing at all. Microsoft can't finish anything!

Exactly a touch monitor (the Surface Studio minus the PC) would have sold so well. Even the Surface team acknowledged in one of their Q&A's there was a lot of asks for that. But just like why Panos left, Satya pretty much restricts them from doing anything innovative or takes the brand forward.

"Why does Microsoft refuse to listen to their users!!!"

But Microsoft DOES listen to their users. Their users are businesses. No business is asking for an expensive MS monitor.

Businesses are asking for Windows, Office, Azure, Exchange Server and SQL Server. That's it. You know, software. MicroSOFT.

Not phones. Not music streaming services. Not watches. Not movies. Not monitors. Not PCs.

"This is why Apple does so well."

Because Apple IS a consumer-focused company. MS is not and never will be.

Microsoft does NOT listen to their customers, not even their business customers. That's why they have been increasingly facing competitors like AWS, Google, and others. Guess what, what are businesses consisted of? CONSUMERS. That's why they did so well in the past with both markets when they were a consumer focused company, because when consumers love them, they will get their businesses to use them too. That's why Apple is consistently quickly growing in the business space. Regarding a monitor, yes there is demand for it. In one of the Surface Q&A's the team even acknowledged a lot of agencies/customers have been asking for one. Satya pretty much prevents anything innovative anymore unless it's AI/Copilot/Azure related. They need a new leader than recognizes that.

 

[taynjack]

"Why does Microsoft refuse to listen to their users!!!"

But Microsoft DOES listen to their users. Their users are businesses. No business is asking for an expensive MS monitor.

Businesses are asking for Windows, Office, Azure, Exchange Server and SQL Server. That's it. You know, software. MicroSOFT.

Not phones. Not music streaming services. Not watches. Not movies. Not monitors. Not PCs.

"This is why Apple does so well."

Because Apple IS a consumer-focused company. MS is not and never will be. Spend millions of dollars a year with MS and MS will listen to you. BTW, MS is also doing very well.

"Then they wonder why people are reluctant to buy their stuff. "

MS does not care about "people". Only businesses. Why is this so hard to understand?

You might as well demand that Oracle sell phones and monitors. Or IBM. Or ADP. Or Cisco. Or SAP.

No business is asking for expensive monitors? Tell me you aren't a designer without telling me you aren't a designer. Designers, architects, and artists are businesses? That's the target market for the Surface Studio! DESIGN BUSINESSES! Those are the people that rejoiced when the SS came out. That machine transformed where I worked from paper to digital design. That machine eliminated expensive large format scanners from my business, and nearly eliminated our large format printers. The price of the SS surely wasn't meant for consumers. Yet my company bought 3 of them. I know one architecture firm that bought ten Surface Studios when they first came out. That machine didn't sell very well though, not because business people didn't want it, but because it was terribly under powered for other digital work that creative businesses do. Microsoft forced people to choose between their high powered custom built computers that are necessary to get things like Maya 3D design done, and a sweet digital drafting table that was terribly under powered. A standalone monitor would have fixed this conflict.

People are business! Consumers are business people! College kids are people that use computers with Windows! SAHM's are people that use computers with Windows! Kids build computers to play games using Windows! Business people use computers after hours that use Windows! Why can't you and Microsoft understand this! This is why Microsoft failed in phones. What, they thought business people didn't want a phone when they clocked out and went home? They left their business phone in their work locker and grabbed their personal phone? They put their business fitness tracker in that locker and donned their personal fitness watch upon leaving work? I do agree with you that businesses aren't interested in music, movies or other streaming services. But if Microsoft is only interested in business, why do they have Xbox?

 

[Laura Knotek]

No business is asking for expensive monitors? Tell me you aren't a designer without telling me you aren't a designer. Designers, architects, and artists are businesses? That's the target market for the Surface Studio! DESIGN BUSINESSES! Those are the people that rejoiced when the SS came out. That machine transformed where I worked from paper to digital design. That machine eliminated expensive large format scanners from my business, and nearly eliminated our large format printers. The price of the SS surely wasn't meant for consumers. Yet my company bought 3 of them. I know one architecture firm that bought ten Surface Studios when they first came out. That machine didn't sell very well though, not because business people didn't want it, but because it was terribly under powered for other digital work that creative businesses do. Microsoft forced people to choose between their high powered custom built computers that are necessary to get things like Maya 3D design done, and a sweet digital drafting table that was terribly under powered. A standalone monitor would have fixed this conflict.

People are business! Consumers are business people! College kids are people that use computers with Windows! SAHM's are people that use computers with Windows! Kids build computers to play games using Windows! Business people use computers after hours that use Windows! Why can't you and Microsoft understand this! This is why Microsoft failed in phones. What, they thought business people didn't want a phone when they clocked out and went home? They left their business phone in their work locker and grabbed their personal phone? They put their business fitness tracker in that locker and donned their personal fitness watch upon leaving work? I do agree with you that businesses aren't interested in music, movies or other streaming services. But if Microsoft is only interested in business, why do they have Xbox?

Designers, artists and other creative people prefer Apple products.