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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Windows Subsystem for Android
Killed 18 days ago, Windows Subsystem for Android was a feature of Windows 11 which allows users to install and run Android apps. It was about 3 years old

Ah, so that's what happened to it.

Edit:

Microsoft partnered with Amazon, but without official access to Google’s Play Store [...]. That’s probably a big part of the reason Microsoft has chosen to simply kill off its Android apps on Windows 11.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Try zed, from makers of Atom. Its the fastest editor ive tried.

https://zed.dev/blog/we-have-to-start-over

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 months ago

I assume this list will contain a lot of "Copilot" entries in about two years.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

RIP Kinect. It should have brilliant but wound up balls.* Alien Isolation* was the only game that used it effectively to my mind.

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

ILoo was just too early for it's time.

Can't wait to see Teams on that list one day.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 8 points 4 months ago

Nothing about Live Writer? Has it been that well killed that it's not worth mentioning? ;)

I know MS has open sourced it years ago, but I have not seen much of it in quite a few years...

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

God, Foldershare was the shit about 2006.

Pick any folder on your PC, share it with a friend anywhere on the internet and it kept them in sync.

The powers that be simply could not tolerate that.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea that existed!

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 months ago

Microsoft acquired them in about 2006 or 2007, and that was that.

Today we have Syncthing and Resilio, but that's nowhere near as simple as Foldershare.

RiP microsoft BOB 😔

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I miss minecraft earth and groove music.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Think "pokemon go" but minecraft.

Huh, sounds interesting.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

What about Skype?

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 4 months ago

Man, using FrontPage and PhotoDraw formed my introduction to web design.

That's one hell of a list though.

[–] clonedhuman@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Interesting information!

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I wish it happen.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's funny how this doesn't affect me anymore. Just some months ago I would have looked at this with anxiety, but now it's just entertainment.

[–] Fucufycyffyfyf@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I snort laughed at "People", but I have this feeling I read a medical professional complain about an unplanned unskippable 3 hour Windows Update cycle in Vista days at a critical moment in health care and.. yeah..

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

TIL there was a subsystem for Android

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I used to use publisher over Word, but I suppose its Word has caught up to it now. Sad to see it go.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 months ago

Word hasn't caught up, and never will. Just not enough users of Publisher in the consumer world.

Page layout professionals don't use Publisher - it never competed with that stuff in the first place.

The print landscape has changed since MS acquired Publisher in ~1994.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Many common Publisher scenarios—including creating professionally branded templates, printing envelopes and labels, and producing customized calendars, business cards, and programs—are already available in other Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and PowerPoint.

If only.