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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. |
Actually if you read the article, it is the Games for Windows Live
Marketplace that is being shut down:
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The GFWL client would remain operational, and the Marketplace function wasn't likely to be missed given how it was dwarfed by the catalogs of other digital distribution services like Steam or EA's (NASDAQ: EA ) Origin.
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In the case of Zune, your previous statement of "They nuke anything that doesn't dominate immediately" doesn't make sense because as the article that you linked to shows:
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Zune would have turned five years old in November.
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And older versions of IE
are still supported by Microsoft with the exception of IE versions 2.0-5.1 for Macintosh and IE 5.2 for for Mac OS X which have been supported for years after their release regardless of their success.