Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
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Microsoft Bob, a replacement user interface for Windows aimed at novice users, was released in 1995 but discontinued just a year later due to poor sales and negative reviews. The software featured a cartoon-like interface with rooms and objects representing applications, but it was criticized for being slow and resource-intensive, selling only 58,000 copies instead of the millions Microsoft expected.
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