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The Microsoft’s Biggest Tech Failures

Submitted by Ricardo Saraiva on May 18, 2009 – 3:14 PMNo Comment, with 702 views

How many failures from Microsoft? 1,2,3… The First place could be a good thing… but not this time. According to TIME Magazine, Vista was the most recent generation of the flagship product of the world’s largest software company, but user satisfaction has been underwhelming, and IT departments have largely opted to stick with Vista’s predecessor, Windows XP. “The company is rushing Vista’s replacement, Windows 7, to market and hopes to have it out by the end of the year.” In the third place is HD DVD, it’s not a Microsoft product, however, Microsoft was one of few that supported the HD DVD, and both lost for the Blu-ray. Last but not least ZUNE: The question is… Why should anyone buy a Zune Player??

zune-failure

Ok… many of this products are technologically equal to or superior to its competition, but all of them missed the opportunity of bringing in billions of dollars in revenue, including YouTube, for more popular it is, doesn’t give profit to Google.

TIME Magazine - The 10 Biggest Tech Failure of the Last Decade

  1. Microsoft Vista
  2. Gateway
  3. HD DVD (Supported by Microsoft)
  4. Vonage
  5. YouTube
  6. Sirius XM
  7. Microsoft Zune
  8. Palm
  9. Iridium
  10. Segway
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