8 Major Hits and Misses of Microsoft


#4.Windows 3.1: Windows 3.1 is an operating system released by Microsoft in 1992 for the personal computers. The OS was sold over 3 million copies in two months of its release. Microsoft won an award for the company as the ‘Most innovative company working in the U.S. in the same year taping its hold in the PC market as the most widely used OS for a long time.

#5.Zune: Zune is a digital media product brand and services offered by Microsoft. Five years after Apple came out with the iPod software, Microsoft released the Zune for the portable media players. Microsoft's late entry in the market led to its fall as a digital media product competing with Apple. The Brand was not a complete failure as the software is still being used as the desktop sync on the present Windows 7 and the 8.

#6.Internet Explorer 6: Internet Explorer 6 is the sixth major update from Microsoft for the Internet explorer. Released in 2001, it was out right after the launch of Windows XP. This web browser has been labeled as the ‘least security software on the planet’ by some publications for lack of its support for modern web standards and its security issues.

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