Google and Apple seems to have got the future very much on their palms, while other mega tech companies like Yahoo play catch up. Yahoo's relevance hit a sudden decline a couple of years ago until the emergence of Marissa Mayer who looks set to turn the company's hard-times to good fortune.

Now, in the last decade, Microsoft has been been dying a slow death and it is unlikely if only one Marissa Mayer can save a company whose future doesn't seem to align with the task ahead. In 2000, Microsoft powered 93% of consumer computing devices, fast-forward to 2013 and the figure has been reduced drastically to as low as 20%, seattletimes reports.

This decline is shocking, and even more worrisome for an innovative company like Microsoft. Let us examine 6 of the numerous Microsoft dying products which may have had some kind of effects in shaping the company's steady decline.


6. Outlook
Hotmail and Yahoomail were once the leading email service giant, but once Google launched it's email service; Gmail. The whole scenario changed. Microsoft has officially killed Hotmail and migrated all users to the Outlook email platform. From an ignored email service in 2004, Gmail has now positioned itself as world's largest email service.

5. Windows Phones
The Windows Mobile OS has never gotten the kind of love Microsoft would have hoped for, considering the fact that Windows OS for PC dominated the market since it was first released to the public. Microsoft has struggled with this platform as many phone vendors do not seem to be interested in what ever it brings to the industry. Lately, Nokia decided to back Windows Mobile OS and made it their primary platform for development of their smartphones. Thanks to the death of Symbian and the failure of Intel to release a new Mobile OS on schedule. In 2013, Windows Mobile OS is still miles behind Apple's iOS and Google's Android with an approximate market share of 4%.

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