Since Steve Jobs returned to Apple, only the Power Mac G4 Cube and the round mouse spring to mind as clear missteps.
Microsoft, on the other hand, stumbles around as though someone tied its shoelaces together. When the company initially talked up its upcoming Longhorn (now renamed Vista) operating system, it claimed that the new OS would be the same kind of built-from-the-ground-up effort as Mac OS X. After years of delay, Microsoft eventually released four flavors of a tarted-up version of Windows XP that even Windows enthusiasts find to be slow, bloated, and bug ridden.
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