Yeouch! “Bob,” you’ll note, happens to the be the name of Razorfish’s CEO, Bob Lord. You’ll also note that Razorfish is an interactive agency owned by Microsoft and has no roots in branding.

Microsoft Bob was an add-on for Windows released in 1995, designed to simplify computer use. Its reception was poor, leading ...

A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data came from Bob, one of Microsoft's biggest failures.

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 concludes that we hardly knew him.

OK, not really, but in response to one question, the Microsoft chairman did refer to the company’s ill-fated virtual Windows assistant, circa 1995, as an early example of a ”personal agent ...

Microsoft Bob seemingly moved away from tiles of windows to a cartoonish home interface, packed with files, folders, apps, and even the beloved Rover the Dog, who also wiggled its way into Windows ...

But, partly because Microsoft “did a poor job of articulating what it was doing here,” Thacher said, Bob sold only about 58,000 copies, according to PC Data. By the time Windows 95 appeared ...

Bob was a short-lived attempt by Microsoft to make then-still-novel PCs approachable. It’s 29 this month, as XDA Developers reminds us today. That article hauled Bob up from a three-decade-deep ...

REDMOND — Bill Gates opened his talk at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit today by saying we've entered a "golden age of computing," as connectivity, ...