Microsoft biggest successes and worst failures

Never knowingly under-dramatic

  • Hasta la vista, Vista
  • Mobility futility
  • Zip it, Clippy
  • Whom do you anti-trust?
  • A succession of failures, a failure of succession
  • Gonna party like it's Windows 95
  • Xbox marks the spot
  • See you at the (Microsoft) Office
  • Windows 7 heaven
  • Too big to fail
  • Play
  • Play
  • Backward
  • Forward

Hasta la vista, Vista

Windows 3.x introduced the "Blue Screen of Death" to an ungrateful nation. Windows ME was such a dog it came with its own fleas. We won't even discuss Microsoft Bob. But for our money, the worst Windows version of all time is Vista. Years overdue, stripped of virtually all the groundbreaking features it was supposed to have, Vista was a wet hot mess that was only made worse by the over-the-top hype accompanying its release. Compatibility snafus, performance problems and impossibly annoying User Account Controls doomed it from the start.

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