Re: [NEWS] Microsoft to shut down Skype

On 2025-03-01 10:58:46 +0000, Alan Ralph said:

On 28 Feb 2025 at 23:20:19 GMT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

 Another product bought up by a big tech business and (eventually)
closed down in favour of their own product, and another third-party
product destroyed by Microsloth buying it up.  :-\

 I haven't kept tabs on who's leading between MS & Google in numbers of
third-party apps bought, left to rot then eventually killed off. Google would
take gold easily if you added in all the home-grown apps & services that have
popped up over the years and popped their clogs a few years later. Yes, Yahoo
should be included as well, but I think even their record would only get them
a bronze medal.

Adobe wouldn't be far behind the medal winners either. At one point they bought up Macromedia, claimed they would not be killing off Dreamweaver or their own GoLive, but anyone with a brain knew they weren't going to be keeping two website building apps, and GoLive quietly disappeared not long after.
Then there is Symantec, which bought Think Pascal and Think C, and then killed them off not that long afterwards.  :-(
Apple too buys up lots of small businesses and then kills off the product, although sometimes the features are rolled into the OS or Apple app.