Bangalore: As 2012 entered its final quarter, several tech companies are on a killing spree. Many of the products, technologies and even some companies died off this year, some mercifully. While tech giants including Google, Apple and Microsoft had contributed many products to the tech graveyard, they also have introduced an array of new products full of life.

Here is a list of products and technologies that got killed in 2012, compiled by Infoworld.

#12 Windows Live

If you believe it or not, Microsoft’s famous Windows Live is dead. The collective brand name of services and products was officially killed by the company with services like Windows Live search disintegrating into Bing and Windows Live hotmail into Hotmail.

“Windows Live services and apps were built on versions of Windows that were simply not designed to be connected to a cloud service for anything other than updates, and as a result, they felt 'bolted on' to the experience." This created some amount of customer confusion, which is noted in several reviews and editorials. The names added to that complexity. We used 'Windows Live' to refer to software for your PC, a suite of web-based services (Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger), your account relationship with Microsoft (Windows Live ID), and a host of other offers," said the company during its mercy killing.