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Mike_L on 09 June 2016
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barneystinson69 said:
Mike_L said:

Exactly, and that's why it's such a mystery when MS launch all these half assed products, services and platforms.

I'm completely baffled as to how many potentially great products that seems to be crippled out of the gate or slowly destroyed by time. You'd think that a company with the size and wealth as Microsoft would be able to attract the needed talent to be able to secure high quality and best in its class products (at least at launch).

But that's often not the case and I fail to understand how that's possible.

 

Windows 10 Store

Xbox One

Windows Phone

Windows 8

Bing

Surface tablets

Lumia phones

Kin phones

Zune media players

Internet Explorer

other (such as Microsoft Vine, Microsoft WebTV, www.so.cl, etc.)

How are these 3 a failure? 

No, you're completely right. Those 3 are not failures. Though my point isn't to shout "failure". My point is to uncover how it's possible that MS seems to cripple their own potentially great products (often from the get go).

 

Xbox One: Numerous PR nightmares (deal with it, buy a 360, always online, mandatory Kinect, blocking of used games, TV-TV-TV, more expensive and weaker, etc.) that crippled the launch of an otherwise good product. Reports have revealed that Xbox together with Skype and Windows Phone loses $2 billion a year. Link.

Bing: Starts promising but fails to steal significant market share and is slowly just destroyed by its lack of continuously improvements and now makes up a $1.3 billion loss together with MSN and Hotmail/Outlook.

Surface tablets: Again, a product with great potential but crippled out of the gate. The Surface Pro is far too expensive and desktop-ish for the iPad audience and the Surface RT is supported by far too few apps

 

Exactly those 3 products are the ones investors seem the most eager to get rid of. Link.

As said, I'm not trying to be a jerk. If you disagree please let me know. Maybe I'll learn something :)