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Bill Gates' Legacy: Microsoft's Top 10 Flops | |
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| Time: 00:02 EST/05:02 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Watch | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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While Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has been ahead of the curve in predicting many technology trends, he also has backed some notorious flops. Gates will be remembered as a visionary and PC industry leader. But even Microsoft's Chairman hasn't been right in all of his bets. | ||
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| #1 By 28801 (68.45.209.133) at 6/19/2006 7:30:29 AM |
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It doesn't seem like that bad a list, with Bob & SPOT being the only legitimate losers. MS Money is still in use by many, I still watch MSNBC, I would love to have a Tablet PC or Oragami (but would agree that they are too pricey). I have a feeling that MS made money on ME. Live meeting will mature into top-notch software. I don't remember the DOS problems.
I'm sure if we look, we can find way more than 10 blunders by Mary Jo. |
| #2 By 5912 (62.58.60.27) at 6/19/2006 8:47:48 AM |
| I wouldn't call the Tablet PC a flop because MS hasn't really abbandoned it. And that goes for some of the other names on the list. |
| #3 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at 6/19/2006 9:19:05 AM |
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#3 10.No Microsoft Linux!:
Wish they would've put this number one so I wouldn't have wasted my time reading the whole article. How come Microsoft Xenix didn't keep you from considering all subsequent MS products such as DOS, Windows, and Office? |
| #4 By 8062 (12.9.14.102) at 6/19/2006 9:50:22 AM |
| MJF, the worlds greatest MS hater, wishes MS never even existed! |
| #5 By 2201 (212.117.228.133) at 6/19/2006 10:25:07 AM |
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Stupid list. It started off greatly, then degenerated into clear Microsoft-bashing, culminating in "No Microsoft Linux". Clearly not a flop cos it's not a product that's been done for it to be a flop, doh!
Try again. |
| #6 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 6/19/2006 11:32:32 AM |
| "Microsoft Linux" would have only opened up the company to more frothing-at-the-mouth hate from the OSS community, since its only purpose would be to throw a wrench into their gears. Why else would they pursue Linux? NT is more advanced, and besides, they wouldn't be able to make enough money on it. It'd be interesting what kind of anti-competitive lawsuits might be filed as well. |
| #7 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 6/19/2006 1:32:05 PM |
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In 2005, Windows unit sales increased by 12.9%, while Linux unit sales only increased by 14.3%. Linux sales used to increase at rates of 50%, then 30% ... and are now down to just barely more than Windows.
I think the fad has peaked. Linux has cherry-picked a lot of Unix business. I predict single digit growth for Linux this year. No Linux distro appears to be a good move. |
| #8 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 6/19/2006 10:32:39 PM |
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His legacy measured by 8-10 products, or features that were not popular.... out of how many hundreds?????? and thousands of components - much less an entire architecture that the word's information needs are largely based upon....????
What "ASSHAT" could possible be so arrogant as to write such rubbish? |
| #9 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 6/19/2006 10:32:49 PM |
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His legacy measured by 8-10 products, or features that were not popular.... out of how many hundreds?????? and thousands of components - much less an entire architecture that the word's information needs are largely based upon....????
What "ASSHAT" could possibly be so arrogant as to write such rubbish? This post was edited by lketchum on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 22:33. |
| #10 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 6/20/2006 8:57:29 AM |
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#7 MS would have been able to sell Microsoft Office for Linux in the same manner that they sell MS Office for Mac, if they had developed a Linux desktop. Most businesses would buy MS Office for Linux, if it existed, to keep employees happy and for full backward compatibility. Naturally, fear of lost profits from Windows ($45+ a pop adds up to a lot of $$) keeps MS Linux in the fiction category.
Parker: You are correct in that there are too many Linux distros. A MS linux distro would probably have been one of the big ones, if not the biggest. MS Linux will not exist as long as Bill Gates breathes and earns $billions from Windows. This post was edited by bobsireno on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 09:02. |
| #11 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 6/20/2006 10:11:48 PM |
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If Bill Gates had wanted to build another Unices, or multices, he'd have done it. If he wanted to build the Microsoft Platform on that bankrupt base of thinking he would have - the facts are that Unices were evolved as teaching platforms for Multices [at the time Mr. Gates began MS] - he wanted to and did, build a platform that was so much more inclusive and open to all people. The Linuces came much later - and based upon yet another teaching set of tools - minix. To have remotely considered building an MS Linuces would have been an enormous and idiotic step backwards into an architecture that was irrelevant before it began.
I vividly recall the debate at UCSD circa 1969/70 - it was understood [well] then what was needed and Bill Gates actually did it. I suspect, though I have no way of knowing, that his determination, as much as intellect, is what created his success. Managing that initial success and later successes is where it is all less clear - that is where I suspect that many others had a very big role and impact. |
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