Those mostly aren't counter-examples though. In most cases they supported them long after most people had stopped using them. Google is notorious for killing popular products.

Technically Edge as well, after they nuked their internal effort and switched to slapping Bing ads on a Chrome fork.

Well, Skype is the only one I'd miss, and after years of neglect I won't cry after it either. As for IE - good riddance. They could add Teams and Sharepoint to that list as far as I'm concerned.

So maybe the difference is that Google kills projects that people love, while MS only kills unloved ones?

Hah, this is exactly what I was hoping to find. Thank you!

Forgot the most recent one - Skype.