Discontinued Windows components

video editing software

Reversi is an abstract strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a fixed initial setup of the board, was patented in 1971.

WordPad is a discontinued word processor software designed by Microsoft that was included in versions of Windows from Windows 95 through Windows 11, version 23H2. Similarly to its predecessor Microsoft Write, it served as a basic word processor, positioned as more advanced than the Notepad text editor by supporting rich text editing, but with a subset of the functionality of Microsoft Word. Microsoft removed WordPad in Windows 11 24H2 and it has no successor.

digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft

Microsoft e-mail client software

discontinued image organizer, photo editor and photo sharing program

discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets

card game that is included in Microsoft Windows

file manager bundled with Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, now open source and ported to modern Windows

Movie maker for Windows Vista to Windows 8

feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0's optional Windows Desktop Update

painting software by Microsoft

ActiveSync is a mobile data synchronization app developed by Microsoft, originally released in 1996. It synchronizes data with handheld devices and desktop computers.

instant messaging client

redirect Microsoft NetMeeting

the shell of Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x operating systems

InkBall is a computer game that is included with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 and Windows Vista. It employs the use of a stylus or mouse to draw lines to direct balls into holes of corresponding colors.

Basic word processor formerly included with Microsoft Windows

Windows notetaking application

image viewer included with the Windows NT family of operating systems

discontinued service by Microsoft

Microsoft WinHelp is a proprietary format for online help files that can be displayed by the Microsoft Help browser winhelp.exe or winhlp32.exe. The file format is based on Rich Text Format (RTF). It remained a popular Help platform from Windows 3.0 through Windows XP. WinHelp was removed in Windows Vista purportedly to discourage software developers from using the obsolete format and encourage use of newer help formats. Support for WinHelp files would eventually be removed entirely in Windows 10.

video-playing suite introduced in Windows 3.1

pinball video game

Hover! is a video game that combines elements of the games bumper cars and capture the flag. It was included on CD-ROM versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities available on personal computers at the time. It was not included with later versions of Windows, but still works on modern Windows. The game will not run on earlier versions of Windows. It was officially remade in 2013 as a browser game to showcase the WebGL support in Internet Explorer 11.

peer-to-peer collaboration program developed by Microsoft

software architecture

discontinued identity selector app by Microsoft

special folder in Microsoft Windows

technology that allows running 16-bit/32-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs on Intel 80386 or higher computers when there is already another operating system running and controlling the hardware

Optional features offered by Microsoft to users of the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista

subsystem for 32-bit Windows for running 16-bit Windows programs

server technology by Microsoft

address book application used in Windows XP and before

HyperACCESS (sometimes known as HyperTerminal) is a family of terminal emulation software by Hilgraeve. A version of HyperACCESS called HyperTerminal is included in some versions of Windows.

technology developed by Microsoft

Cardfile is a personal information manager, with an interface metaphor based on the concepts of index cards, card files, and rolodexes, that was distributed with Microsoft Windows starting from the original version 1.01 until Windows NT 4.0 Server. Cardfile is also included with Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, but has to be installed manually from the installation CD-ROM. Beginning with Windows 3.1, Cardfile supported Object Linking and Embedding. The version supplied with Windows NT versions was a 32-bit application with Unicode support. Both later versions could read .crd files cr

software product for scanning paper documents

specialized file transfer program developed by Microsoft

computer program

web mapping client software

NTBackup (also known as Windows Backup and Backup Utility) is the first built-in backup utility of the Windows NT family. It was introduced with Windows NT 3.51. NTBackup comprises a GUI (wizard-style) and a command-line utility to create, customize, and manage backups. It takes advantage of Shadow Copy (to create backups) and Task Scheduler (to schedule them). NTBackup stores backups in the BKF file format (a proprietary format at the time) on external sources, e.g., floppy disks, hard drives, tape drives, and Zip drives. When used with tape drives, NTBackup uses the Microsoft Tape Format (MT

Optional feature included with Internet Explorer 4

lightweight single-purpose applications