#2 The Surface’s $900 Million Stumble

Surface, which is Microsoft’s series of tablets with Windows RT as its operating system never really took off. Windows 8 was an OS that was preferred only by very few in the globe, and to make things worse, at the time of Surface’s launch there were very few apps of any relevance at all. Even though software updates later fixed the bugs and brought some improvement, the damage was already done. Windows RT failed and along with it fell the Surface tablets. Microsoft later admitted to producing too many Surface tablets that were never sold even after a number of price reductions and other sales incentives.

#3 Office on Android and iPhone

One of Microsoft’s major strongholds has been its Office suite, something that was limited to only Windows desktop and mobile environments. With Windows being a minority in the mobile segment, Microsoft was forced to come up with something to compete against Google and Apple in the mobile segment. The answer was to release Office to both Android and iOS platforms. A change that would never have happened in Microsoft’s glory days.

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