Bill Gates: I ten mistakes at Microsoft

Microsoft on Thursday announced that from July 2008 onwards, Chairman Bill Gates will no longer · is responsible for the day-to-day management of the company, and more time for charity. There is no doubt that Bill Gates is the world's PC industry one of the most important, has followed the trend and technological development, but he is not always right, here are the top ten in Microsoft's Bill Gates.

With the phasing out of the gates of his 31 years at the helm of Microsoft, an era is coming to an end, he's in Microsoft's wrongs will become the industry, the media and even personal comment object. As Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Gates success forecast a lot of technology development trend, but he's also obvious lapses. In under the leadership of Bill Gates, Microsoft has introduced several failed product or technology, the following 10 items.

1, Microsoft BOB: BOB is a Microsoft product, released in 1995, Microsoft hopes to improve program management BOB Windows3.1 interface, perhaps this concept is no problem, but Bob is still not really pop has been superseded. Objective, Bob is not critical of it such as tide, but it did not lead to the disappearance of how many people regret and memories, because it solved the problems yet. Interestingly, BOB is in charge of developing the project's wife Melinda Gates.

2, WindowsME: this is perhaps the most failure so far of Microsoft Windows versions 2000, shortly after the launch, a lot of installation and compatibility issues. In 2001, with WindowsXP, WindowsME soon disappeared. Of course, is not devoid of any merit WindowsMillennium, such as the product first to have the system restore feature in then applied in WindowsXP.

3, Tablet PC: maybe now there are still many Tablet PC support, but this technology has a lot of problems, but its high cost. From the market performance, the Tablet PC is a failure of the product. Microsoft has decided to Tablet PC capabilities as an essential component of WindowsVista operating system, not as a separate SKU releases.

4. SPOT Watch: while the first smart personal object technology (SPOT) Watch prototype into the market already for three years, but this product volume is too large, shapes rigid issues remained unresolved. In addition, the SPOT watch lack of attractive application provides support to spend hundreds of dollars to purchase this product users are value for money.

5, Microsoft Money: If Microsoft 1995 acquisition Intuit plans not suffer anti-trust obstacles, the company may have access to Quicken software and make your own network banking products to become market leader. But, against all expectations, Microsoft can only own the design and development of financial software Money, eventually been Intuit far left behind.