11 times Microsoft saw the future - and blew it

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.

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.