2007 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Chart API was an interactive Web service that created graphical charts from user-supplied data.
2007 – 2012
HARDWARE
Google Mini was a smaller version of the Google Search Appliance.
2006 – 2012
APP
Microsoft Expression Studio was a suite of tools for designing and building Web and Windows client applications and rich digital media content.
2008 – 2012
SERVICE
AdSense for Feeds was a RSS-based service for AdSense that allowed publishers to advertise on their RSS Feeds.
2009 – 2012
APP
Google Listen was an Android application that let you search, subscribe, download, and stream podcasts and web audio.
2010 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Refine was a standalone desktop application for data cleanup and transformation to other formats.
2006 – 2012
APP
Zune (software) was a media management software that functions as a full media player application with a library, an interface to the Zune Marketplace, and as a media streaming server.
2011 – 2012
APP
Sparrow was an email client for OS X and iOS. Google acquired and then killed it.
2008 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Insights for Search was a service used to provide data about terms people searched in Google and was merged into Google Trends.
2009 – 2012
HARDWARE
iPhone 3GS was a smartphone where "S" stood for Speed and featured improvements such as better performance, a 3-megapixel camera with higher resolution and video ability.
2004 – 2012
HARDWARE
iPod Socks were a set of multi-colored cotton knit socks for protection of iPods from damage during travel.
1999 – 2012
SERVICE
Postini was an e-mail, Web security, and archiving service that filtered e-mail spam and malware (before it was delivered to a client's mail server), e-mail archiving.
2005 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Video was a free video hosting service from Google, similar to YouTube, that allowed video clips to be hosted on Google servers and embedded on to other websites.
1999 – 2012
SERVICE
Windows Live Messenger, previously named MSN Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client featuring games, photo albums and social network integrations.
2000 – 2012
APP
Microsoft Reader was an application for reading e-books, specialized for .lit format.
2005 – 2012
SERVICE
Meebo was a browser-based instant messaging application which supported multiple IM services.
2009 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Commerce Search was an enterprise search service that powered online retail stores and e-commerce websites that improved speed and accuracy.
2006 – 2012
SOFTWARE
iWeb was a template-based WYSIWYG website creation tool that allowed users to create websites and blogs and customize them with their own text, photos, and movies.
2001 – 2012
SOFTWARE
iDVD was a DVD authoring application for Mac OS that allows the user to burn QuickTime movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD.
2004 – 2012
SERVICE
MobileMe was a subscription-based collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc. All services were gradually transitioned to and eventually replaced by the free iCloud.
2011 – 2012
SERVICE
Needlebase was a point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web.
2005 – 2012
SERVICE
Microsoft Live was a brand-name for a set of web services and software products from Microsoft as part of its software plus services platform.
2008 – 2012
SERVICE
Knol was a Google project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics.
2009 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Wave was an online communication and collaborative real-time editor tool.
2009 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Flu Vaccine Finder was a maps mash-up that showed nearby vaccination places across the United States.
2011 – 2012
SERVICE
Google One Pass was an online store developed by Google for media publishers looking to sell subscriptions to their content.
2011 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Related was introduced to be an experimental navigation assistant launched to help people find useful and interesting information while surfing the web.
2010 – 2012
HARDWARE
Apple TV (2nd generation) was a digital media player featuring a custom verion of iOS, a smaller form factor than it's predecessor and supported an output of up to 720p with HDMI.
2005 – 2012
SERVICE
Urchin was a web statistics analysis program developed by Urchin Software Corporation. It analyzed web server log file content and displayed the traffic information on that website based upon the log data.
2005 – 2012
SERVICE
Slide was a photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace and Facebook. Later Slide began to make applications and became the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook.
2008 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site from 2008 to 2012.
2006 – 2012
SERVICE
Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter.
2006 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Code Search was a free beta product which allowed users to search for open-source code on the Internet.
2008 – 2012
SERVICE
Google Health was a personal health information centralization service that provided users a merged health record from multiple sources.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Noop was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language that attempted to blend the best features of 'old' and 'new' languages and best-practices.
2007 – 2011
SERVICE
Apture was a service that allowed publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate multimedia into a dynamic layer above their pages.
2010 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that integrated with Gmail.
2007 – 2011
SERVICE
Gears (aka Google Gears) was utility software that aimed to create more powerful web apps by adding offline storage and other additional features to web browsers.
2008 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Notebook allowed users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online.
2010 – 2011
SERVICE
ZygoteBody, formerly Google Body, is a web application by Zygote Media Group that renders manipulable 3D anatomical models of the human body.
2006 – 2011
HARDWARE
Zune was a line of portable media players.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google PowerMeter was a software project of Google's philanthropic arm that helped consumers track their home electricity usage.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Squared was an information extraction and relationship extraction product that compiled structured data into a spreadsheet-like format.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Sidewiki was a browser sidebar tool that allowed users to contribute information to any web page.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Aardvark was a social search service that connected users live with friends or friends-of-friends who were able to answer their questions.
2006 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Pack was a collection of software tools offered by Google to download in a single archive. It was announced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, on January 6. Google Pack was only available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
2008 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Desktop allowed local searches of a user's emails, computer files, music, photos, chats and Web pages viewed.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Fast Flip was an online news aggregator, something of a high tech microfiche.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Dictionary was a standalone online dictionary service.
2010 – 2011
HARDWARE
Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking.
2002 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Labs was a technology playground used by Google to demonstrate and test new projects.
2007 – 2011
SERVICE
Rebang was a Zeitgeist-like service centered on providing service to a Chinese audience. It was incorporated into Google Labs as of late 2010, and later discontinued along with its parent project.
2000 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Directory was an Internet website directory organized into 14 main categories that allowed users to explore the web.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Image Swirl was an enhancement to the image search tool that came out of Google Labs. It built on top of image search by grouping images with similar visual and semantic qualities.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Real-Time Search provided live search results from Twitter, Facebook, and news websites.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Script Converter was an online transliteration tool for transliteration (script conversion) between Hindi, Romanagari and various other scripts. It's ended because Google shut down Google Labs and all associated projects.
2002 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Sets generates a list of items when users enter a few examples. For example, entering "Green, Purple, Red" emits the list "Green, Purple, Red, Blue, Black, White, Yellow, Orange, Brown".
1997 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Specialized Search allowed users to search across a limited index of the web for specialised topics like Linux, Microsoft, and 'Uncle Sam.'
2010 – 2011
SERVICE
Google Hotpot was a local recommendation engine that allowed people to rate restaurants, hotels, etc. and share them with friends.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Gizmo5 was a VOIP communications network and a proprietary freeware soft phone for that network.
2009 – 2011
SERVICE
Real Estate on Google Maps enabled users to find places for sale or rent in an area they were interested in.
2010 – 2011
SERVICE
fflick was a review, information, and news website that used information from aggregated Tweets to rate movies as positive or negative.
1991 – 2011
SERVICE
Microsoft Money was a personal finance management software program. It has capabilities for viewing bank account balances, creating budgets, and tracking expenses, among other features.
2002 – 2011
HARDWARE
Xserve was a line of rack unit computers that could be used for a variety of applications, including file server, web server or even high-performance computing applications using clustering.
2005 – 2010
SERVICE
Google Base was a database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content, such as text, images, and structured information.
2007 – 2010
SERVICE
GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) was a telephone service that provided a speech-recognition-based business directory search.
1997 – 2010
SERVICE
Microsoft Amalga Hospital Information System (HIS), formerly Hospital 2000, was a fully integrated hospital information system designed for developing and emerging markets.
2008 – 2010
HARDWARE
iPhone 3G, also known as iPhone 2, was a smartphone designed and marketed by Apple. The iPhone 3G introduced new hardware features such as GPS, 3G data and tri-band, it was also the first iPhone to feature the App Store – Apple's new distribution platform for third-party applications.
2007 – 2010
SOFTWARE
Response Point was an advanced VoIP-based telephone system targeting small businesses.
2008 – 2010
SERVICE
BumpTop was a skeuomorphic desktop environment app that simulates the normal behavior and physical properties of a real-world desk and enhances it with automatic tools to organize its contents.
2008 – 2010
SERVICE
SearchWiki was a Google Search feature which allowed logged-in users to annotate and re-order search results.
2006 – 2010
SERVICE
YouTube Streams allowed users to watch a YouTube video together while chatting about the video in real time.
1998 – 2010
SERVICE
Marratech was a Swedish company that made software for e-meetings (e.g., web conferencing, videoconferencing).
2000 – 2010
SERVICE
Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.
2006 – 2010
HARDWARE
Project Origami was an ultra-mobile PC featuring a physical keyboard, a touchpad and a touchscreen.
2002 – 2009
SERVICE
The Google Web APIs were a free SOAP service for doing Google searches so that developers could use the results in almost any way they wanted.
2007 – 2009
APP
Microsoft Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) was an accounting software application targeting small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.
2005 – 2009
SERVICE
Google Ride Finder was a service that used GPS data to pinpoint and map the location of taxis, limos, and shuttle vehicles available for hire in 10 U.S. metro areas.
1988 – 2009
APP
Microsoft Works was an intuitive and cheap alternative to Office. It included a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system. Later versions had a calendar application and a dictionary.
2005 – 2009
SERVICE
Google Toolbar for Firefox
2007 – 2009
HARDWARE
Google Radio Automation was a hardware and software service used by radio operators to automate song playing among other radio station functions.
2008 – 2009
SERVICE
Flix Cloud was a high-capacity online video encoding service.
2007 – 2009
SERVICE
Google Mashup Editor was an online web mashup creation service with publishing, syntax highlighting, and debugging.
2007 – 2009
SERVICE
Google Shared Stuff was a web page sharing system that allowed users to bookmark pages and share it.
2005 – 2009
SERVICE
Grand Central was a Voice over IP service that was acquired by Google, and turned into Google Voice.
2003 – 2009
SERVICE
Dodgeball was a location-based social network where users texted their location to the service, and it notified them of friends and points of interest nearby.
2008 – 2009
SERVICE
Google Audio Ads service allowed advertisers to run campaigns on AM/FM radio stations in US using the AdWords interface.
1993 – 2009
APP
Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia, originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, then available on the internet via a subscription, and finally turned into free and supported by advertisements.
2007 – 2009
SERVICE
Tafiti was an animated search engine launched by Microsoft and TrappsInteractive to showcase the Silverlight animation and video player.
2008 – 2008
SERVICE
Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment that provided a new way to access information.
2006 – 2008
SERVICE
SearchMash was an experimental, non-branded search engine that Google used to be able to play around with new search technologies, concepts and interfaces.
2007 – 2008
HARDWARE
iPod Touch (1st generation) was an iOS-based mobile device without cellular network capability. It could be used as a music player and a handheld gaming device, but it can also be used as a digital camera, a web browser and for messaging.
2006 – 2008
SERVICE
Google Page Creator was a website creation and hosting service that allowed users to build basic websites with no HTML knowledge.
2002 – 2008
SERVICE
MSN Music was a store of music, music news, music videos, spotlights on new music, artist information, and live performances of artists.
2006 – 2008
SERVICE
Google Send to Phone was an add-on to send links and other information from Firefox to their phone by text message.
2007 – 2008
HARDWARE
iPhone (1st generation) was the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple, the release changed the way we use mobile phones.
2006 – 2008
SERVICE
Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synced information like passwords and browsing history.
2006 – 2008
SERVICE
Live Search Academic was a web search engine for scholarly literature that existed, part of Microsoft's Live Search services.
2002 – 2008
SERVICE
Hello was a service by Picasa that let users share pictures "like you're sitting side-by-side."
1991 – 2008
SERVICE
Visual Basic was a third-generation event-driven programming language known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model.
2001 – 2008
HARDWARE
Game Boy Advance was a 32-bit handheld game console released by Nintendo as a successor to the Game Boy Color.
2005 – 2008
SERVICE
Google Web Accelerator was a client-side software that increased the load speed of web pages.
2001 – 2008
APP
Windows Messenger was an instant messaging client included in Windows XP and designed for both corporate and home users.
2001 – 2007
SERVICE
Google Zeitgeist was a weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshot in time of what people were searching for on Google all over the world.
2004 – 2007
SERVICE
Google Click-to-Call allowed a user to speak directly over the phone to businesses found in search results.
2006 – 2007
SERVICE
The Google Video Player plays back files in Google's own Google Video File (.gvi) media format and supported playlists in 'Google Video Pointer' (.gvp) format.
1984 – 2007
SOFTWARE
AppleWorks was an integrated office suite containing a word processor, database, and spreadsheet.
2006 – 2007
SERVICE
Google Video Marketplace was a service that included a store where videos could be bought and rented.
2002 – 2007
SOFTWARE
Visual J# was a programming language and development tooling which was meant to help Java developers move to the .NET ecosystem.
1996 – 2007
SOFTWARE
Microsoft NetMeeting was VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing client and incorporated technology acquired from Data Connection Ltd and DataBeam Corporation.
1996 – 2007
SOFTWARE
Office Assistant was an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content. The most famous avatar was Clippit (a.k.a. Clippy), an humanized paperclip.
2002 – 2006
SERVICE
Google Answers was an online knowledge market.
1995 – 2006
APP
Microsoft Office FrontPage was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows.
1999 – 2006
SERVICE
MSN Chat was the Microsoft Network version of IRCX (Internet Relay Chat extensions), which replaced Microsoft Chat.
2005 – 2006
SERVICE
Writely was a Web-based word processor.
2002 – 2006
SERVICE
Google Public Service Search provided governmental, non-profit and academic organizational search results without ads.
2002 – 2006
HARDWARE
eMac, short for education Mac, was an all-in-one Macintosh desktop computer featuring a white plastic case and a 17-inch CRT monitor. The eMac was powered by a Freescale PowerPC G4 processor anda Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics card.
1991 – 2006
HARDWARE
PowerBook was a family of Macintosh laptop computers targeted at the professional market.
1999 – 2006
HARDWARE
iBook was a line of laptop computers targeting entry-level, consumer and education markets, with lower specifications and prices than the PowerBook
2003 – 2006
SERVICE
Google Deskbar was a small inset window on the Windows toolbar and allowed users to perform searches without leaving the desktop.
2004 – 2006
HARDWARE
iMac G5 was an all-in-one personal computer featuring the classic square design and was the final iMac to use a PowerPC processor.
1994 – 2006
APP
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) was a source control program oriented towards small software development projects, originally created by One Tree Software prior to Microsoft acquisition in 1994.
1996 – 2006
APP
Microsoft Picture It! was a photo editing application designed for casual users and initially inspired to the wizard user interface concepts of Microsoft Publisher.
2002 – 2004
HARDWARE
iMac G4 (often called Lamp or Sunflower) was an all-in-one personal computer featuring an LCD mounted on an adjustable arm above a hemisphere containing the computer.
1999 – 2004
APP
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 was a vector graphics and raster imaging software.
1996 – 2004
SOFTWARE
Visual J++ was a Microsoft's implementation of Java which ran only on MSJVM, the proprietary JVM.
2003 – 2003
HARDWARE
iLoo was a smart portable toilet integrating the complete equipment to surf the Internet from inside and outside the cabinet.
1998 – 2003
HARDWARE
iMac G3, originally released as the iMac, was a series of personal computers known for their egg shaped design and bright colored plastic.
1989 – 2003
HARDWARE
Game Boy was an 8-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Featuring a dot-matrix screen with adjustable contrast dial, five game control buttons and a single speaker with adjustable volume dial.
1998 – 2003
HARDWARE
Game Boy Color was handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Unlike the original Game Boy it featured a color screen.
2002 – 2003
APP
Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal was a fighting game for the Xbox gaming console, retired after few months because its controversial content.
2001 – 2002
APP
Microsoft Data Analyzer was a program to analyze and visualize data and data trends, and was integrated with SQL Server Analysis Services.
2001
1994 – 2001
SERVICE
Microsoft BackOffice Server was a computer software package featuring Windows NT Server and other Microsoft server products that ran on NT Server.
1997 – 2001
SERVICE
Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) was a proprietary Java virtual machine.
1999 – 2000
APP
Microsoft Vizact was a program that allowed creation of interactive documents using HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions).
1998 – 2000
APP
Microsoft Liquid Motion was an application to create Java animations to compete with Macromedia Flash.
1997 – 2000
HARDWARE
ActiMates was a family of interactive stuffed toys which can interact with many episodes of their respective TV shows or on special ActiMates-compatible VHSes and special PC games.
1993 – 2000
SOFTWARE
DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) was an OS service to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly.
1991 – 2000
SOFTWARE
QBasic was an integrated development environment and interpreter for a variety of dialects of BASIC which are based on QuickBASIC.
1996 – 1999
APP
Microsoft Comic Chat was a graphical IRC client.
1997
1992 – 1997
APP
Microsoft Cinemania was an application distributed on CD-ROMs that shown information about films such as images, sound clips, dialogues, sound tracks and some full motion video clips.
1995 – 1996
HARDWARE
Virtual Boy was a 32-bit tabletop portable video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Featuring a head-mounted display with a red monochrome display.
1993 – 1996
APP
Microsoft Anti-Virus (MSAV) was an antivirus program introduced for MS-DOS operating system, finally acquired and dismissed by Symantec.
1995 – 1996
SERVICE
Microsoft Bob was a user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems.
1995 – 1996
APP
3D Movie Maker (3DMM) was a children's computer program to make films by placing 3D characters and props into pre-rendered environments, as well as adding actions, sound effects, music, text, speech and special effects.