mjdxp - Spirits of the Microsoft Morgue


This page is dedicated to showing remnants of dead Microsoft services that still exist on Microsoft's website somewhere. In some cases, remnants of services discontinued over a decade ago still have pages explaining their discontinuation or still contain redirects to other pages. This page is dedicated to cataloging them. This is a counterpart to the Ghosts of the Google Graveyard page.

Skype

The website for Skype is now just a blank blocked request page without anything super interesting going on, not even Microsoft telling you to use Teams.

Skype Support

Skype's support website, which has a retirement notice telling you to use Teams, which is just Skype but worse.

Internet Explorer

The Internet Explorer discontinuation page, telling you to use Edge, which is just Chrome but worse.

Internet Explorer Downloads

Hosts downloads for IE despite it being discontinued. There is a warning letting you know IE is discontinued on each download page. The downloads still work.

Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 Evaluation CD Download

Despite being out of support since 2019, you can still download Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 here. This means you can still download a version of Windows XP from Microsoft today.

Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 Professional: Better Together

This is a download for an ancient DOC file with information about Windows XP and Office 2003 which is still hosted by Microsoft for some reason.