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 that was a superimposed user interface on top of MS-DOS. Windows was still pretty darn unfamiliar to people back then, so in 1995, Microsoft came up with a more user-friendly interface called Microsoft Bob (codename Utopia). Bob was a complete replacement for Windows 3.1, changing the way users interacted with their PCs. Instead of "windows," you interfaced with a digital hou...