The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade


	The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade
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5-22-2009 7:39 AM
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Out of 10 Vista & Zune well done Microsoft 2out of Ten
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5-22-2009 7:50 AM
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Success is often cultivated through a series of failures and learning from those mistakes. Behind any successful entrepreneur there will be a past consisting of a one or more failures.

Vista sucked, no question about it. The bar is set higher. Competing companies will be producing more products, better ones, and so will Microsoft. For the consumer, this means we benefit. Competition is good. Consumers benefit from that.
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