Ballmer's Legacy: 10 Highlights And Lowlights For Microsoft's CEO

Windows Vista

Windows Vista was so bad that even Microsoft itself acknowledges it was a disappointment (one Microsoft official referred to Vista as "Windows Voldemort" at a recent event). Vista was criticized for having bloated features, a huge footprint, running slow, and frequent crashes, among other problems. Basically, it was everything you didn't want in an operating system.