One of Microsoft's biggest product failures may not have been its fault

[Ruler]

Conina said:

Ruler said:

Teeqoz said:

betacon said:

tiffac said:

Microsoft does not fail. They only print money. Hmph!

What was Vista and windows 8 then?

They still printed money

Not really, MS gets so much money because of investors and maybe with server hosting. Their stocks are probably in a bubble as well

Bullshit. Microsoft sold over 300 million Vista licenses... how much do you think they needed to sell to break even?

"The internet-usage market share for Windows Vista after two years of availability, in January 2009, was 20.61%. This figure combined with World Internet Users and Population Stats yielded a user base of roughly 330 million,  which exceeded Microsoft's two-year post launch expectations by 130 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Sales

Additionally, their work on Vista was not in vain, since it was the solid base for the Windows 7 adjustments. Windows 7 was mainly a service pack for Vista with a fancy name, since the "Vista" name was burned.

The same goes for Windows 8 and 8.1... most of the improvements are carried over to the next Windows versions. Under the surface (no pun intended) of the polarizing Windows8-GUI was a very fast and very reliable OS.

so what its their existing bussiness allready but what else has MS done recentley which expanded their horizon? Xbox, Zune, Windows Phones they all turned not to be so hot.