The Worst Tech Decisions Of All Time

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Windows Vista Project Mismanaged

windows Vista, worst tech decisionWindows Vista was released to manufacturing in November 2006, with a consumer debut in January 2007, but got mostly negative reviews due to higher resource requirements, incompatibilities with some popular hardware and software programs, and a controversial security feature called User Account Control that was derided as overly intrusive. Nobody knows how much the Vista debacle cost Microsoft, but it damaged the company’s reputation and almost certainly amounted to billions of dollars of stalled upgrades.