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The famous computer magazine "PC Magazine" website announced the top ten best software in history, and today they announced the top ten "most disastrous" software. The author of the article shows that the principle of choosing these software is that they have once been considered the future of software, but the final prove is the software that is significant failure after investing in huge, which is why he is called "software disaster". Ok, let's start counting down:
10. Microsoft Bob (1995).
I have always like this product. It is also a victim of Microsoft's marketing strategy failed. It is a great experiment of the Microsoft Character Interface OS Environment. If its cartoon character interface can be positioned in children and home markets, I think it can achieve certain development. Unfortunately, now I have disappeared in Microsoft's product development plan.
9. UCSD Pascal and other languages
In the 1980s, a variety of strange strange languages have begun in 1977, the UCSD Pascal in 1977, thereafter, there are Forth, ModuL-2!, Each, has been touted by people, but unfortunately use them The code from the coming is bloated, and it is of course no shadow.
8. MicroPro Easy word processing software (1985)
This product has been braised into a word processor for "hate computer". Think about it, I feel funny, people who hate the computer simply don't buy a computer, but also buy your software? I still remember using this software to play a carriage return on paper, it is really a joke, so even if I advertise, no one is bought. The only blow to the boiler of the advertisement is comparable to it is Microsoft's Apple version of Word 6, Apple's users are still smelling it.
7. WINDOWS 1.0.
Microsoft launched this thing in 1985, Microsoft became a joke of the world, and its subsequent product Windows 2.0 and Windows 386 were also so bad.
6. About 1985 Microsoft Access
Maybe Access This name is really unknown. Microsoft's earliest Access is a telecom program for controlling modem and call bulletin boards, which competes with Procomm, unfortunately it is too bloated, and eventually stopped development. After many years, Microsoft has developed a database management software Microsoft Access, which also means that the death of the old "Access". The new software has a lot of performance, but after it is a standard with SQL as the core, it can only be slowly faded.
5. TopView (1984)
This is the corresponding product launched by IBM's window system that quickly attaches quickly. This is a character base-based task switch and multi-task program, running very well in the DOS environment, but it is destined to kill Microsoft without user interest.
4. Lotus Symphony (PC) and Lotus Jazz (Macintosh).
These two software are LOTUS computers a follow-up product of Lotus 1-2-3 software than Microsoft than Microsoft in the 1980s. It is a pity that they have no common works with their predecessors, while Jazz priced up to $ 600. Symphony and Jazz are batch one or not, both are luxurious packaging, high prices, but they ended.
3. Framework.
This is an office set of Ashton-Tate in 1984 to replace DBASE-II. If the George Tate of the big out of the big out is not suddenly died during this product, it is likely to be very successful. No other people can replace him to promote this product. It also displays data in a similar window, but cannot understand why it does not have a mouse interface. However, there are still some fanators who maintain its survival. I don't know why.
2. Microsoft OS / 2.
This later obtained by IBM has been called "next great operating system" by Steve Ballmer. In the process of opening OS / 2 in both parties, Microsoft feels that he can abandon IBM, and study Windows. Although the IBM multi-party repairs, OS / 2 eventually played Microsoft, and died in the case of no one. Vision.
The failure of Vision is the arrogant final result and triggers the transformation of Microsoft's entire strategic direction. This non-product comes from Visicorp, operating Visicalc. At that time, any failure of the software industry returned to the declaration of this mistlet (VAPORWARE). The product of the 1982 COMDEX display caused Bill Gates announced that will launch Windows. After the completion of Vision, I went to a company that did not see the company disappeared.
