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The website of the famous computer Magazine PC Magazine recently published the top 10 best software in history. Today they announced the top 10 "Most catastrophic" software. The author of this article shows that the principle of choosing these software is that they were once considered as the future of the software, but after a huge investment, the software eventually proved to be a major failure, this is why he called it "software disaster. Okay, let's start counting down:

10. Microsoft Bob (1995 ).

I have always liked this product. It is also the victim of Microsoft's marketing strategy failure. It is a great experiment in the OS environment of Microsoft's man-machine interface. If its cartoon character interface can be positioned in the children's and home markets, I think it can develop. Unfortunately, Microsoft's product development plan has vanished.

　　9. UCSD Pascal and other languages

In the 1980s S, the emergence of a variety of strange languages, this phenomenon began in 1977 UCSD Pascal, after which Forth, Modula-2! And so on, each of them was once touted by people, but unfortunately the code written with them is bloated, and now of course there is no trace of it.

　　8. MicroPro Easy word processing software (1985)　　

This product was once boasted to be a word processor for "Computer hated. I think it's funny to think about it. People who hate computers simply don't buy a computer. Why do they still buy your software? I still remember that using this software to press enter on paper requires a combination of keys. This is a joke, so no one buys a large advertisement. The only thing that can rival Microsoft's apple Word 6 in the scale of advertising is that Apple users are still swearing at it.

　　7. Windows 1.0.

When Microsoft launched this product in 1985, it became a joke, and its successor products Windows 2.0 and Windows 386 were equally bad.

　　6. Microsoft Access

Maybe the Access name is unknown. Microsoft's first Access program was a telecommunications program competing with Procomm to control Modem and call board. Unfortunately, it was too bloated and eventually stopped development. After many years, Microsoft has developed a database management software Microsoft Access, which also means the death of the old "Access. The performance of new software is much better, but after SQL-centered products become standards, it can only fade away slowly.

　　5. topviews (1984)

This product was launched by IBM for the rapidly emerging Windows system. This is a character-based task switch and multi-task program. It runs well in the DOS environment, but it is killed by Microsoft if it is not of interest to users.

　　4. Lotus Symphony (PC) and Lotus Jazz (Macintosh ).

These two software are the follow-up products that make Lotus computer a greater and more successful Lotus 1-2-3 software than Microsoft in the 1980s S. Unfortunately, they have nothing in common with their predecessors, and the pricing of Jazz is as high as $600. Symphony and Jazz were rejected for nothing, both of which were luxurious packaging and expensive, but both ended in failure.

　　3. Framework.

This is the office suite that took over dBASE-II launched by Ashton-Tate in 1984. If the popular George Tate didn't suddenly die during the launch of the product, it is likely to succeed. No one else can promote the product. It also displays data in a window, but it cannot understand why it does not have a mouse interface. However, there are still some hot people who are maintaining it, and I don't know why.

　　2. Microsoft OS/2.

Later, the software acquired by IBM was called by Steve Ballmer as "the next great operating system". During the joint venture between the two parties, microsoft thinks it can and eventually abandon IBM and study Windows on its own. Even though it was repaired by IBM, OS/2 was not able to play with Microsoft, and unfortunately died without any concern.

　　1. Vision.

VisiOn's failure is the final result of arrogance and triggers a shift in Microsoft's entire strategic direction. This unfinished product is from VisiCorp, which runs visic1c. Any failure in the software field can be traced back to the announcement of the fog ware. This product, presented at the 1982 COMDEX exhibition, led Bill Gates to announce the launch of Windows. VisiOn disappeared after being sold to an obscure company.