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📣 sexy_seedbox

What Is Microsoft's Highest Quality Product?


Microsoft has never been known for quality products, from OneDrive to Teams to (new) Outlook to all of Azure, nobody actually love their products. And recent years it has been quantity over quality (for example, see Dynamics 365, it's just a bunch of acquisitions slapped together).

So what is Microsoft's most loved, most stable and highest quality product?


  👤 nonrandomstring Accepted Answer ✓
The IntelliMouse and Kinect.

The Intellimouse was a near perfect price point of quality, reliability and correct ergonomics for me. I bought three or four of them and still have one around today. Kinect was an innovative product that set-up easy and worked as advertised.


👤 johndoe0815
IMHO the Z80 SoftCard used for CP/M emulation on the Apple II. Like 86-DOS, the precursor to MS-DOS, the SoftCard was developed by Tim Paterson.

Other Microsoft products of the time, such as Commodore BASIC V2 used in the C64, were not that great, though the compilers for CP/M were quite OK.

Everything developed by Microsoft after the early 80's... let's not talk about that :). My work environment is Microsoft-free since I stopped using my C64 and Apple II for everyday tasks and I'm happy to own some computers for which Microsoft never published any software - NeXT workstations.

“Develop for it? I'll piss on it.” – Bill Gates, in response to InfoWorld asking if Microsoft would develop applications for the NeXT Computer.

I thought that the Atari ST was another platform without Microsoft software, but there was a version of Microsoft Write published in 1987 (https://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-st-microsoft-write_...).


👤 nullindividual
Your question is leading, which is unfortunate.

SQL Server; NT kernel


👤 talldayo
WSL

👤 billy_bitchtits
Excel

👤 zhangchaoza
The Minesweeper I think.

👤 MattGaiser
Xbox/Halo.

👤 proc0
Clippy