The biggest own-goal I've ever experienced in this space was Windows8.
Extremely Late Hot Take: Windows8 - hardware aside -was Actually Pretty Good. But the thing they bungled, hard, was making the Win8 changes accessible.
If you didn't see the first-run "swipe from off the screen" training montage, all the reflexes you might have from a phone or iPad were all 100% wrong and did nothing.
The first time I sat down in front of one of them it took me an hour to figure out how to log in at all.
mhoye
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