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Dead/dying platforms: Do you care about any of these?

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I wish Web OS and Media Center had survived, they were great.

The others, particularly WP needed to die, Jesus what a mess.
 
Add Lotus Notes to your list; I'm really hoping I never work in an organization that makes the mistake of switching to it again.
 
lxskllr said:
I think Winphone could still be something. The rest are either good riddance, or I'm not familiar.
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this. I haven't tried Winphone, but I feel like I want to give it a chance after my current newish experience with W10 and the Surface 4.

but the Windows app store is indeed still quite terrible.
 
For those wanting to try a WP. You can sometimes get the Lumia 640 ATT version for $40-60$. It's an awesome phone for under $150.
 
Only Media Center. I have to keep a Windows 7 machine running just to record programs that I then have to stream to my Windows 10 HTPC. Removing Media Center (and not even giving us the option to buy it) castrates Windows 10 for me.
 
ctark said:
You can add media center to windows 10 very easily. I know thats not the point but I'm just saying in case anybody was curious about it.
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Last I saw (which was a few months ago, so things may have changed) you could put it on Win 10, but any time Win 10 updated, you had to go through and reinstall it all over again. Which is quite a pain considering Win 10 updates nearly daily for me.

If that has changed, then I am curious.
 
Ichinisan said:
Flash

Not sure how I feel about Windows Phone. Never really tried it. Seems strange that Microsoft will still have to support all that stuff anyway...just for Windows 8/10. That app store was a miserable experience since developers neglected it.
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I had a windows phone for a while. Really liked it. but the app store sucked and still does. That is what will kill the windows phone. Microsoft failed at figuring out how to capture the tablet/phone market when they had the home/business PC OS market locked up.
 
Part of the problem may have been MS was seen as "the establishment" and devs wanted something new and anti-establishment. Ironic since Google has turned into big brother.
 
I care about Java because its necessary to access the practitioner side of the USPTO web tools, and a bunch of browsers have stopped supporting it (most notably Chrome). Pretty soon I'm going to have to find an old copy of netscape just so I can do my job.
 
biostud said:
Microsoft should make mediacenter a part of their app selection.
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They put the team on the XBOX One. No doubt, they will be doing something with unified apps, but it will almost certainly require an XBOX One as the machine doing the DVR distribution.
 
I am going to go against the grain here and say I am pretty sad about flash dying. Yeah it sucks, is a security risk, etc etc, but there is some (basically illegal if I am being honest) streaming content that only is distributed via Flash.

In 2011 I could stream any football game on TV to my phone thanks to Flash support. It bailed me out when my favorite team played during a wedding I had to go to once. Today I no longer have that option. Yes it ate my battery and yes it was laggy, but I had the option. Or I think about web radio- almost any local station has some sort of flash plugin to stream content via a web browser but often you have to pay to stream that same content through an app. Or how Hulu still has some free content on the web browser, but mobile devices only can access via paid Hulu Plus. That sort of thing.

The only other thing I will miss is WMC. I never really used it for long periods of time, but I really like that a legitimate way to get content recordings existed if nothing else as a form of plausible deniability to less legitimate ways of content acquisition. Kinda like how I have always said that the pot smoker's best friend is a tobacco smoker even if they themselves don't smoke tobacco, because tobacco being legal allows stores to sell "tobacco" pipes (that we all know don't get used for tobacco). It is a convenient cover.
 
I'll miss Java. It was a platform agnostic tool that could be used so that just about any OS could run certain things the same way. Now that will be gone, and I think we'll see more vendor lock in from the alternatives. "This only runs on Windows." "This only works in Chrome or Firefox." We'll see equipment that we access become in-accessible because they are equipped with a 3 year old web server that speaks in a way no longer supported by browsers and the only way to get updated access is to purchase your 10K dollar annual maintenance agreement from the vendor for equipment that only costs 14K.
 
WebOS could have been a giant killer. Great on my Palm Pre Plus and HP Touchpad. Got a bad deal from that idiot at HP and we are all the poorer for it. Hacked my TP with Android but revisit WebOS from time to time.

Windows phone is my favorite phone OS now and Im no windows fanboy. Unless you cant live without certain apps it is great.
 
thebestMAX said:
WebOS could have been a giant killer. Great on my Palm Pre Plus and HP Touchpad. Got a bad deal from that idiot at HP and we are all the poorer for it.
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What killed Web Os was the lackluster Pre. By the time HP stepped in it was already a done deal.

The giant killer mobile OS was Meego. That was Nokia at its best, but that idiot CEO burned the platform before it had a chance.
 
PSA, don't point out sales numbers for the WP in the mobile forum, they're in denial, we're talking BB level denial.
 
poofyhairguy said:
What killed Web Os was the lackluster Pre. By the time HP stepped in it was already a done deal.

The giant killer mobile OS was Meego. That was Nokia at its best, but that idiot CEO burned the platform before it had a chance.
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Correction, the platform stagnated and Android raced ahead. They weren't going to succeed being exclusive to Palm hardware. Ask BB how that worked for them.
 
ill miss windows media center. was a lot more polished than most people think. cable companies are the ones that made cablecards difficult. most of them dont even offer them unless requested.
 
zinfamous said:
this. I haven't tried Winphone, but I feel like I want to give it a chance after my current newish experience with W10 and the Surface 4.

but the Windows app store is indeed still quite terrible.
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It's beyond terrible. It's a barren, empty wasteland. Which is a shame, because Windows Phone looks quite interesting as a platform.
 
On one hand, I agree. On the other hand, I've been using WP for a few years and there's a grand total of three apps I really wish I had on my phone. Having 50 million apps available is kinda moot if you only use two.
 
I've been using a Lumia 640 for months as my primary phone. I fell out of the boat while I fishing last Sunday and the phone was in my pocket. The phone still works, but there seems to be some moisture under the screen. Walmart has the phone on sale for a little over $30 yesterday, so I just bought another one. I would have been very sad if I had ruined an expensive phone. I'm really going to miss these cheap phones if Microsoft stops making them.

The ending of Windows Media Center keeps my up at night. Right now I have a comcast cable card in a Siliconedust HD Homerun Prime tuner. If there is no replacement for WMC, then I will probably just drop the cable TV service and go with only streaming services. I'm planning on just keeping Windows 7 until it no longer works.
 
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