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10 Biggest Bloopers and Blunders

October 2, 2000


  1. IBM's poor marketing of OS/2

  2. Apple's insistence on producing expensive, proprietary systems that missed the mark as enterprise platforms

  3. Novell's purchases of WordPerfect ($850 million), Unix Systems Labs ($300 million), DR-DOS ($130 million) and AppWare ($17.5 million)

  4. Novell's clinging to a character-based interface for WordPerfect and eventually releasing a bug-ridden Windows version of it

  5. Microsoft's claim in federal court that Internet Explorer and Windows 95 are inseparable

  6. The public's making Kevin Mitnick into a hero

  7. Intel's introduction of the Pentium processor with flawed floating-point operations

  8. Microsoft's Bob

  9. The Apple Newton

  10. FTP Software's attempt to market an IPsec client and then an IPv6 stack long before either were standardized



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