A universally disliked desktop operating system, failed tablet and a phone OS which is decent but nobody is interested in.
A disliked operating system that is nevertheless used by almost everyone
One of the two most popular games consoles plus a fair few hit games
The very best office software that has basically no competition and is even more ubiquitous than their ubiquitous OS[/quote]
Windows 7 adoption is still increasing faster than 8. As far as I know, none of the companies I work for have gone ahead with planned roll outs of 8.
Samsung, Lenovo and others have had to ship their machines with apps similar to ClassicShell to undo the Windows 8 changes because of poor user feedback.
What I can tell you from personal experience is that two companies I work for each employing multiple thousands have both started rolling out iPads to all their staff instead of updating their desktops.
And they have both been previously 100% Microsoft houses. They’ve even had their legacy web apps rejigged to work better on the iPads screens. I don’t know of any which have rolled out Surfaces, nor have I heard of anybody I know buying or even considering buying one.
Last I heard the XBone’s sales figures were trounced by the PS4 as well, though that could just be artificial scarcity in action.
On the subject of phones, Microsoft allegedly make more money (5x more!) from their patent trolling of Android, than they do from WPh
Bing is another colossal waste of cash that nobody likes and nobody wants.
The only really successful new product I can think of is Office 365, which seems popular with SMBs.
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But the big plus they have and that you missed is that bb are planned to be dropped by several companies in the near future for Windows mobiles given that it means simpler infrastructure and after BB’s high profile service failures.
My experience is that they’re giving out iPhones instead.