Let's take a look back at one of Microsoft's biggest failures ever. The origin of Bob dates back to 1991, when Microsoft had just released Publisher, part of Microsoft Office. Publisher did ...

In the software world, there’s Bob. If you don’t remember him, Bob was Microsoft’s 1995 answer to why computers were so darn hard to use. [LGR] gives us a nostalgic look back at Bob and ...

An alternate interface for Windows from Microsoft that was designed for people afraid of computers. Introduced in 1995 and discontinued the following year, Bob came with a word processor ...