Nokia must've been the no 1 blooper. I loved Windows phone. I really liked it over the other two. It felt fresh, fast and less clunky the ios and Android. The quality of those rebranded Nokias was great. Unfortunately, Ms dropped the ball and wanted big profits fast. I had the band2 as well and it was good but the quality was not there.
One blooper I cannot forget was the 2015 unlimited OneDrive storage for MSAs. I remember getting an email from MS about this giving me 10 TB to start with. I think a month later MS backtracked on the offer because of excessive abuse! I think cloud storage was not quite ready at the time for unlimited storage. They should reintroduce it. Other than that I agree with your selections but don’t forget the Windows flops like ME! 😂😂
Good list Andy, however you forgot Microsoft Bob "The Social Interface" and Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition aka Microsoft Windows Crash and Burn Edition. Both of those were complete disasters for good ole MS.
The biggest mistakes I see are. 1. Killing SBS products and forcing small business to go to the cloud. 2. Outlook/New Outlook, why confuse people when they are not the same thing. 3. Teams personal/Teams classic/New Teams, I see business customer with all three of these on their machine because they don't know the difference. 4. If they force bit locker to be enabled by default then every new machine I setup will have it disabled. IT is a stupid idea for home & small business.
They were a little hamstrung by their agreement with the EU to allow third-parties kernel-level access. I think they could have put better controls and mitigations in place for the inevitable screw up.
At first, I was sceptical about rebranding Azure AD to Entra ID. However, I have come to appreciate that the new name offers a clearer distinction between the directory and identity services and the Azure resources that can leverage them. It made it easier to explain to the less technical people in the business.
Nokia must've been the no 1 blooper. I loved Windows phone. I really liked it over the other two. It felt fresh, fast and less clunky the ios and Android. The quality of those rebranded Nokias was great. Unfortunately, Ms dropped the ball and wanted big profits fast. I had the band2 as well and it was good but the quality was not there.
Agreed :-)
One blooper I cannot forget was the 2015 unlimited OneDrive storage for MSAs. I remember getting an email from MS about this giving me 10 TB to start with. I think a month later MS backtracked on the offer because of excessive abuse! I think cloud storage was not quite ready at the time for unlimited storage. They should reintroduce it.
Other than that I agree with your selections but don’t forget the Windows flops like ME! 😂😂
Absolutely 🤣😂
No mention of Cortana 😮😂
I should have done my top 20 :-D
@@AndyMaloneMVP Next video 😅
Great work Sir, Microsoft will review it's windows again
Good list Andy, however you forgot Microsoft Bob "The Social Interface" and Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition aka Microsoft Windows Crash and Burn Edition. Both of those were complete disasters for good ole MS.
I didn’t mention this on purpose just for fun and to get a reaction😁
The biggest mistakes I see are.
1. Killing SBS products and forcing small business to go to the cloud.
2. Outlook/New Outlook, why confuse people when they are not the same thing.
3. Teams personal/Teams classic/New Teams, I see business customer with all three of these on their machine because they don't know the difference.
4. If they force bit locker to be enabled by default then every new machine I setup will have it disabled. IT is a stupid idea for home & small business.
Of course, Recall is on the top of my list.
I would have put Windows ME way above Vista, but good list overall.
Steve Balmer as CEO was a fail
Agreed. After that he had to go
@@AndyMaloneMVP After he stopped, the cloud business really took off, and many products became much more stable, including OneDrive for Business.
Sheldon at it's best :) :).. Oh, great video. Thank you!
Clippy - love the t-shirt, hated the feature.
The OG AI
I'm missing a bit of why sometimes. The rebranding drives me crazy!
Me too👀
What year did you get you MS MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award? I know it's given out annually...
2006
microsoft ppl
something like a social faceboot that they have pushed on your OS without asking
Can MS be held responsible for the Crowdstrike mess?
I’ll leave that to the lawyers 🤣😂
They were a little hamstrung by their agreement with the EU to allow third-parties kernel-level access. I think they could have put better controls and mitigations in place for the inevitable screw up.
Win 8.1 works fine :)
Is 1-9 on the top ten connected to windows vista (their less good operating system)
No
You missed canceling windows phone
That was covered in the whole phone sequence
Yeah, what on earth did they come up with Entra ID? This is when marketing has gone too far! 🙃 But I think their worst mistake was Crowdstrike. 😶
Me too and it wasn’t even Microsoft’s fault
Bro it's becoming so confusing 😵💫
I don't mind the rebranding as much as extra charges you get when they add new feature like Entra Internet/Private Access/Governance/Priva
At first, I was sceptical about rebranding Azure AD to Entra ID. However, I have come to appreciate that the new name offers a clearer distinction between the directory and identity services and the Azure resources that can leverage them. It made it easier to explain to the less technical people in the business.