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Microsoft's year of shame
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this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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What I find funny and I realized it a bunch of years ago: whenever consumers have actual choice of an alternative product and aren't forced into the Microsoft product because of Microsoft's monopolies, people tend to pick the competition.
Windows Phone: consumers chose Android and iPhone.
Xbox: consumers chose PlayStation and Nintendo.
Handheld gaming PC: Steam Deck.
Chat (MSN, Skype,...): WhatsApp and a plethora of alternatives. (Businesses use Teams because of Office monopoly.)
Edge browser: Chrome.
WMA: MP3.
Games shop (Xbox/Microsoft Store): Steam.
Also, Zune. Haha.
True. Wasn't meant as a comprehensive list. ๐
Yeah. I figured.
But I also figured adding Zune might give you a laugh.
No offense meant to the folks that made the Zune, either. I've worked on products that became joke punchlines, myself, as well.
The really sad part is that the Zune was objectively better than the iPod (at the time at least) and deserved so much more.