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So long Microsoft and thanks for all the Deepfish
jkOnTheRun — ... today the silence ended but not how we wanted it to.  Microsoft Labs has pulled the plug on Deepfish and is sending it twirling down the drain. ...

Microsoft Live Labs discontinus ‘Deepfish’; suspends Volta Toolkit downloads
D' Technology Weblog — Microsoft has quietly killed off one of its touted Live Labs projects “Deepfish” and another of the Microsoft incubator’s projects — the Volta toolkit is missing in action. Deepfish, an enhanced mobile browser for Windows Mobile, was discontinued on September 30 (or September 31, as the note about the ending of the service on the Deepfish site erroneously states). Microsoft’s explanation for Deepfish’s demise (from the Live Labs Web site): ...

Microsoft desiste do projeto Deepfish
MacMagazine — ... que “a navegação móvel avançava de forma que os celulares se tornariam rivais dos desktops”. A despedida lacônica, no mesmo blog, anunciava apenas, sem maiores explicações e com pouca consideração aos usuários, que o serviço de proxy que sustentava o navegador móvel seria desativado em 31 de setembro. Será que o medo da concorrência falou mais alto? ...