What other software of Microsoft was made irrelevant?
Encarta.
Encarta was irrelevant 10 years ago. I honestly haven't heard that software package name since... wow... before google. Or before Google was Google. The demise of Encarta predates Wikipedia or even XP I think. That's def a windows "me" era package and was doomed for other reasons. I think the bottomline is, and microsoft probably won't say this directly or admit it, but most of these "extra" apps MS tossed into windows systems (or sold separately) , MS was HOPING someone would make them irrelevant so they didn't have to keep wasting time on them. But they had to built some core crap stuff because no one else really did for awhile. I seriously doubt Microsoft was placing their bets on Paint vs Photoshop. Outlook express is a perfect example too. That was irrelevant 10 years ago also but again, since there was not a good cheap alternative and they weren't willing to offer office for free... it's like "hey, here's this until someone does a better one, we don't really care."
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