Microsoft's Mishaps & Misadventures

by Damian Burke

There was a post on Microsoft Watch by Joe Wilcox earlier this month, with a list of Microsoft’s unluckiest ventures. Readers were invited to add their points after the main article. Here are a few of my favourites (a collection from the initial post and the comments), or you can check out the full post here. I invite you to do the same and leave your opinion below.

  • "The May 2000 "I Love You" virus which, for a brief time, made Outlook one hated email client. A rash of Outlook-spreading viruses followed.
  • The Zune.
  • Release of Microsoft Bob. Need I say more?
  • Windows XP's New York launch about a month after September 11, 2001. Microsoft had to greatly mute festivities.
  • Microsoft's paranoid corporate culture, which is an ongoing moment of bad luck. The company jinxes customers and partners every time it bases strategy on what competitors—or presumed competitors—might do.
  • The Xbox360, a rip off that MS should be paying for until the end of time.
  • The day they invented Active X."
This one is from me:
  • Microsoft claiming XP as “uncrashable”, and I have heard the same about VISTA, but I’ve not yet had the opportunity to raise the hammer.

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When I think of MS I recall their "The 'WOW starts' now" VISTA slogan ... and then I giggle.
www.gottaquirk.com/post/278/vista-launch

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