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Top 10 worst products

By Tom Merritt
Sep 19, 2005

We gave you our list of the 10 dot-com flops, top 10 buzzwords of the past decade, and 10 tech that we miss, but frankly, we had more fun picking our top 10 worst products of the decade. We've seen our fill of disappointing products, but the following are our 10 favorite flops. Miracle of miracles, some of them are even still around today for your purchase. Darn that indomitable spirit of capitalism--you can't stop it!

Click on the links to see the 10:

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1. Microsoft Bob
I want to say that it was a good idea in the beginning. Bob was born out of Microsoft's goal to improve the Program Manager interface for Windows 3.1. But it was a replacement that just didn't catch on. It also suffered the ignominy of spawning the awful Clippy--the helpful paper clip. Maybe Bob wasn't universally bad, but I've never heard anyone say they miss it. On a side note, according to Wikipedia, "Microsoft Bob was a project managed by Melinda French, Bill Gates's girlfriend at the time. The two later married. Bob was the last project she ever worked on for Microsoft".

 

 
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