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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's Big Failures That BillyPress Tends to Forget/Neglect

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's Big Failures That BillyPress Tends to Forget/Neglect
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:19:51 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> 10 Great Microsoft Technologies That Failed
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | WebTV (1997)
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Tablet PCs (2002)
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | WinFS (1990s)
> `----
> 
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2325942,00.asp

Here's another "lucky" 13:

WinME, WinCE, Vista, Zune, Xbox360, Live Search, Surface, IPTV, Home
Server, OneCare, Internet Explorer, Office 2007 and OOXML.

Frame them and stick them on the wall, next to pictures of the Titanic
and the Hindenburg.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining
| armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos
| neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate
| technology, led them into it in the first place." ~ Douglas Adams
`----

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
 13:19:37 up 214 days,  9:55,  3 users,  load average: 0.27, 0.27, 0.31

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