From Kin to Clippy — the worst Microsoft products not named Windows
Microsoft recently made it official: its misguided, useless and almost comically bad digital assistant Cortana will finally be killed this fall when Windows support for it ends.
The impending death of Cortana made me think about the worst products in Microsoft’s history (not including versions of Windows), many of which have their own brand of awfulness. Because the company is nearly 50 years old, and the list is long, I had to do a lot of strolling down unpleasant memory lanes.