mjdxp - Spirits of the Microsoft Morgue


This page is dedicated to showing remnants of dead Microsoft services that still exist on Microsoft's website somewhere. In some cases, remnants of services discontinued over a decade ago still have pages explaining their discontinuation or still contain redirects to other pages. This page is dedicated to cataloging them. This is a counterpart to the Ghosts of the Google Graveyard page.

Skype

The website for Skype is now just a blank blocked request page without anything super interesting going on, not even Microsoft telling you to use Teams.

Skype Support

Skype's support website, which has a retirement notice telling you to use Teams, which is just Skype but worse.

Internet Explorer

The Internet Explorer discontinuation page, telling you to use Edge, which is just Chrome but worse.

Internet Explorer Downloads

Hosts downloads for IE despite it being discontinued. There is a warning letting you know IE is discontinued on each download page. The downloads still work.

Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 Evaluation CD Download

Despite being out of support since 2019, you can still download Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 here. This means you can still download a version of Windows XP from Microsoft today.

Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 Professional: Better Together

This is a download for an ancient DOC file with information about Windows XP and Office 2003 which is still hosted by Microsoft for some reason.

Windows Phone "New and rising Games on Mobile"

Redirects to a page on Microsoft.com which doesn't exist. Only leads to a barebones "Not found" page rather than the usual 404. The title has the original windowsphone.com domain.

Acompli Security"

Acompli was purchased by Microsoft and turned into Outlook Mobile. The website now redirects to Microsoft's Outlook page, but the security page is still online. It contains links to follow on social media platforms including Google+.

Outlook.com Postmaster"

A website intended to provide information to Outlook system administrators. Based on the copyright date, it seemingly hasn't been updated since 2018.

Outlook.com Smart Network Data Services"

Another forgotten Outlook website about an Outlook feature. The page was seemingly last updated in 2013, which is reflected in the UI design.

"PubCenter Contact Support"

Has a bunch of links for Windows 8 and Windows Mobile support, and some email addresses that likely don't exist anymore. The design is very outdated.

"PubCenter Account Error"

Similar to the above site, likely shows if there's an accounts issue. The migrate link is also similar to this page in its design. Interestingly, the copyright date is 2025 at time of writing.

"PubCenter Account Error"

Similar to the above site, likely shows if there's an accounts issue. The migrate link is also similar to this page in its design. Interestingly, the copyright date is 2025 at time of writing.

"PubCenter Unsupported Browser"

Shows if you are using an unsupported browser. Design is similar to the other old PubCenter pages. Reccomends using Internet Explorer 8.0 or later or Mozilla Firefox 5.5 or later.

"PubCenter Terms and Conditions"

A plain text HTML legal document, apparently last updated in 2023. Whoever updated it didn't bother to change the links from HTTP to HTTPS.

"PubCenter Help Server Error"

Appears when you try clicking the Help link on one of the PubCenter pages. It's a generic looking resource not found error.

"PubCenter Password Reset"

Another outdated PubCenter page.

"PubCenter Branding Pane"

Some sort of branding pane for PubCenter. The links don't work.

"PubCenter Sign in with your Windows Live ID"

A barebones page with a link to sign up for a Windows Live ID, which I don't think exists anymore. The link redirects to the live.com signup screen.