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MS Bob?

• mschaef 8y ago
  I think that omission is mainly my own bias, which stems from my age... I had been paying attention to the industry then and at the time it got a bunch of press. Bob's also interesting in that Melinda Gates was involved in marketing that project, and she considers it her biggest flop: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/the-lesson-melinda-gates-learned-from-screwing-up-a-microsoft-project.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/the-lesson-melinda-gates-lea... MS Xenix is another one that might ought to be on that list. So much of Microsoft's image is built around Windows that the notion of a Microsoft without Windows and selling a 'Unix' has got to be startling to the vast majority of folks.
• acheron 8y ago
  Bob was and is pretty famous. Obscure in the sense that few people used it (I did!) but it's well-known, probably moreso than anything on that list. Known as a failure, sure, but still well-known.