[res0nat0r]

Nah, the whole reason it exists, and is linked here is to try and pile on that Google is terrible and shuts down products that everyone in the world loves. But the reality is the minor minor subset of the world that is HN loved some of these projects and were upset no one else used them, thus they were shut down.

I haven't seen any accompanying MS articles like this, mainly because there haven't been angry posts here of MS shutting down products we think they should keep running forever that no one uses.

[Aldo_MX]

> I haven't seen any accompanying MS articles like this, mainly because there haven't been angry posts here of MS shutting down products

Quite the contrary, people seem to be happy when MS shuts down a product.

http://ie6countdown.com

[pjc50]

Have you not seen how much outrage appears whenever Microsoft change the Windows desktop?

Microsoft also gets the reverse treatment: criticism for "excessive" backwards compatibility^ and leaving old products in use that people want to kill (IE6).

^ Except when they were sabotaging Lotus, Quarterdeck, OS/2, and Samba back in the 90s.