New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Microsoft has had so many successes. Their Windows Operating Systems have cumulatively become an all-time blockbuster and something which we have simply taken for granted. MS Word-Excel-PPT entered our lexicon for good. IBM might have missed out on cloud early on, but Azure is making tremendous strides. A late entrant in gaming, Xbox 360 still managed to sell 85 million+ units.

But failures are the stepping stones to success. So, as expected, the Microsoft stable is still littered with many flops and not just a certain OS which may have severely underperformed in comparison to others. To their credit, Microsoft got into almost each and everything you could have thought of and expectedly did not make a splash in ever...