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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I'm confused about your post. Microsoft still supports Games for Windows, the Zune, Internet Explorer 7-11.
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Your confusion stems from ignorance, then.
Games for Windows is ending support for its games in July of this year and
is no longer being supported. The Zune player
was killed in 2011,
and the marketplace was shutdown in 2013. Things unique to the Zune brand, like the subscription model, might as well have never happened.
Each version of Internet Explorer is billed as "no THIS is the one that will fix it," with the last quickly forgotten. And of course new updates are tied to hilariously expensive Windows versions, and old versions are abandoned quicker than their respective OS versions.
These examples, which you were so quick to question, are three of hundreds across Microsoft's history; dozens of consumer products that are indicative of a mentality that I as a consumer cannot trust. 18 months from now they'll give up anything I buy from them unless it's entrenched in their Windows/Office ecosystem or makes a massive splash.
And even that's not a guarantee. The Xbox 360 was making big waves, and suddenly Microsoft shows up with the original announced vision of Xbox One: a brazenly terrible anti-consumer product that was only dialed back when consumers pre-ordered its competitor instead. They're an unqualified mess.