In Pictures: 2012 Tech industry graveyard

Apple, Cisco, Microsoft and Google among those bidding farewell to products

Microsoft Metro

Microsoft ditched the Metro name for its square-tiled interface for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7.x , claiming it was only meant to be a code name … although speculation is that the company was forced to abandon it due to trademark issues.

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