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Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly lurking in Windows for years
In the mid-1990s, Microsoft DOS dominated most PCs. Those who were a step ahead might’ve been using Windows 3.1, but even ...
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Every Microsoft Windows operating system, ranked
Add to that early versions of Word and ... by Google. Microsoft has a reputation for shipping alternating bad than good operating systems, and Vista’s position between Windows XP and Windows ...