What about Internet Explorer 5.0 - 6.0? Oh sure, they're terrible these days, and sure there was some anti-competitive behavior, but IE 5.x came out it was the most standard compliant, quality browser around. It set a bar so high that Netscape slowly faded away with its inferior browsers, and in the end spawned Mozilla and then Firefox when they gave up. It was only until about IE7, years later, that the bar IE 6 previously set was noticeably surpassed.

And what about Windows Media Player? More EC fodder, but does anyone remember those dark days when Real Media Player was the first invasive malware to grace desktops? "Oh lovely, a giant Real icon in my tray, eating up my resources." Quicktime wasn't much better. Worse, like the browsers of old, they wanted you to PAY to use them. However, with WMP, you could use alternative players that would directly play through the DirectMedia layer with or without WMP proper. Soon came along better quality videos through DivX and others, without the obnoxious codecs and their respective players. Good riddance to the Real Media Player and their like!

I can't stand it when people keep bashing and fault-finding Microsoft's business activities/products. After all, they are just trying to make a living. But then, they are super rich, while most of us are comparatively super-poor, so I guess I can understand some animosity when their products expose people to security problems while costing them money. Actually, Ballmer is a billionaire who seems pretty full of himself, yelling all the time and apparently throwing chairs at his employees, so this could also be a source of irritation to some people. Actually, I don't like him much.

Thinking this over, I now think that I have been duped by these money-mongering trash salesmen...I am downloading Kubuntu right now, and will delete this Microsoft crap and all its viruses forever. I used to not agree with Microsoft bashers, now I R one.

BASIC was Dope In & Amphets where cOBOL Base. Todays Consumer is intrested in Pop City & Dust Devil of Connections, never before Has Us Public had Such Offer.

Whats Nexxx? if 12 cores makes sound multi core enviorment, in efect, or full/"true" 4 cores of complexity as Software possibility, Is 8 core up in "truecount" 80~100 Core range. Software will have to Change, Pin count will More Than ?Double, Final Speed Rizor of 10 Gb/s & You In Like....?GLINT. Well, its still what you make of it.

Must Say in 1985 NO ONE was thinking M/S 1.0. it was IIe World or Terminal to Mainframe, which there where thousands of brands, all Y5K$, Some had Memory.Yet, Like today: 'NO Modem, NO Cheese".

drashek

The very first software I obtained for my 486DX; 17yrs later and 5 revs later I still enjoy it. Numerous user add-ons ensure it never gets old. What can one ask for in a program where even a novice can create his own flight plans and fly nearly any plane of their choosing from any airport or airstrip on Earth.
Very user friendly when compared to X-Plane, just the thing when you want to take an Otter to a secluded little lake

No. I agree, but can't believe that they didn't include SQL Server, Word Perfect, Novel, Netscape...

I am the gitS

First of, LOL, sara bellum.

While I heartily agree with nominations such as WinXP, Office 2000, NT 4.0 and Windows update, you'd have to be daft to nominate IE7 (Or any IE)minesweeper, Win 3.1 (Just because it was the first gui to actually be usable doesn't make it a hit) or any version of DOS. (OK. 5 wasn't terrible, but as CLI's go, it's the bottom of the heap.)

Nice try though.

did you miss the 's' out from in front of the 'h'?
then, i think you would have a story