Windows 8 is likely the most ambitious UI project for Microsoft since Microsoft Bob, and we all know how that ended up. For what it was intended to do, Bob was both cutting-edge and very successful. However, the bar was set too high, and it failed spectacularly. I could argue that if folks initially saw the iPod as a heavy, expensive device with poor content access (no Windows support or iTunes), or the iPhone as crappy, expensive, fragile phone with slow connectivity (2.5G in a 3G time frame, no screen protection), or the iPad as an expensive netbook without a keyboard (which is kind of what it is), they would have failed too.
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Windows 8 and the Perception Game
Posted by: Rob Enderle March 19, 2012 05:00 AMWindows 8 is likely the most ambitious UI project for Microsoft since Microsoft Bob, and we all know how that ended up. For what it was intended to do, Bob was both cutting-edge and very successful. However, the bar was set too high, and it failed spectacularly. I could argue that if folks initially saw the iPod as a heavy, expensive device with poor content access (no Windows support or iTunes), or the iPhone as crappy, expensive, fragile phone with slow connectivity (2.5G in a 3G time frame, no screen protection), or the iPad as an expensive netbook without a keyboard (which is kind of what it is), they would have failed too.