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Microsoft has had many successful products - Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox, to name a few. There are, however, many projects that never took off because company executives didn't see the potential of what they had built at the time.
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In hindsight, these products were way ahead of their time and something that Microsoft should have pursued.
Here are nearly a dozen instances in which Microsoft saw the future and passed.
