| ▲ | xtracto 4 hours ago | |
Mhmm Longhorn, Zune, phone, Skype, bungie , among many other failures. I was there, as a kid of the 80s, Microsoft, Windows, Visual Basic, VStudio were EVERYTHING up until around 2003, they just dropped too many balls. | ||
| ▲ | voidfunc 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
It was botching Mobile that really did Balmer in and possibly not reacting quite quickly enough to the need for Enterprise-grade Cloud Computing while Amazon was bootstrapping AWS right in Microsoft's back yard. They got the cloud situation under control but losing Mobile to Apple and Google was a disaster and they're paying for it still. | ||