The Biggest Software Flops of All Time - Slideshow from PCMag.com
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"Software is a funny thing. You can't touch it, but you can certainly pay for it. It weighs nothing, but takes dozens or even hundreds of people to make. And sometimes it just doesn't work out.
No matter how detailed your specs, how solid your market research, and how optimized your code, there are always winners and losers. Sometimes a competitor comes to market with something better. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances make your program useless or outdated. And sometimes you just screw things up to a point that no amount of patching can fix it.
In this feature, we'll crawl through the annals of computing history to showcase 10 software releases that went horribly wrong. Some of the biggest names in the industry show up here—Apple and Microsoft are both well-represented—which proves that there's always a second chance. And a third and a fourth if you play your cards right. For some of the other development houses on this list, though, their software flops sounded the death knell for their businesses."
