● 10.30.09

●● MSN Direct Added to List of Microsoft Products That Die

Posted in Microsoft at 4:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Microsoft keeps swatting its products that don’t perform well (i.e. bring no income) and MSN Direct is the latest victim

OUR list of dead Microsoft divisions or Microsoft products keeps growing at a pace of about two per month. It cannot be denied that Microsoft is a shrinking company. The latest addition to the list is MSN Direct, which Microsoft is to pull the plug on.

Microsoft ditches MSN DirectMSN Direct, Microsoft’s data broadcast network, is to be switched off in 2012, leaving literally dozens of users bereft of updates and another Microsoft initiative in the dust.

For future reference, more coverage can be found in:

MSN Direct will shut down in 2012MSN Direct Goes DarkMicrosoft pulls plug on MSN direct, maybe on your GPS device, tooMicrosoft to shut down MSN Direct traffic service for GPSMicrosoft Finally Laying MSN Direct to Bed in 2012This is the end, my only friend (for MSN Direct wireless data service)Microsoft to discontinue MSN DirectMSN Direct to Be Shut Down in 2012Microsoft Pulling The Plug On MSN Direct In 2012Microsoft’s MSN Direct service to shut down in 20122012 Apocalypse Confirmed by Microsoft for MSN Direct Service MSN Direct to shut down in 2012Farewell to MSN Direct, in 2012MSN Direct service to shut down Jan. 1, 2012R.I.P. MSN Direct: 2004-2012

With cancellations of products usually come staff redundancies. More large-scale layoffs are rumoured to be coming soon. █

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