Last week, I highlighted Apple’s biggest failures. Now I want to move north to Redmond, Washington, to the other Titan of Technology, Microsoft. Like Apple, the company has had it’s share of fiascos. Let’s look now at Microsoft’s biggest failures. Office Assistant (“Clippy”) The Failure We’ll start with Microsoft’s most infamous flop, Microsoft Bob, which …
It was my tenth birthday. I spent the afternoon in downtown St. Louis with my dad. When I came home, there was a computer in the living room, a Tandy 1000HX. “Happy birthday,” my mom said. “You got me a computer?” “No,” said my dad. “It’s the family computer, not yours. It’s your birthday present, …
Apple Inc. is one of the most successful companies in history, but they’ve certainly had their share of failures. From the earliest days with Jobs and Woz, to 1990s Dark Ages, to rise of the iPhone and the death of Steve Jobs, Apple successes have been matched only by their failures. As a student of …
I’m not the first person to complain about this, and I certainly won’t be the last, but Caps Lock really needs to go. Since the advent of the Internet, typing in all caps has been a sign of screaming, anger, trolling and sheer laziness. In one way this is a blessing. The Caps Lock key …
I’m fascinated by the Ghosts of Technology, most notably the floppy disk icon. It’s been twenty years since anyone used floppies as their primary medium, yet the icon shows no signs of weakening. Even cloud computing programs use it. At this point, it’s become almost like a Chinese character: an abstract symbol far removed from …
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