When I look at my referrers list, I am amazed at the number of people who still search for this abandoned Microsoft product and find my post on Microsoft's April Fool MSDN RSS listing. (Hint for all you searchers --- it was a joke. The program was not posted for download.)
I was reminded of this today by reading Dvorak's latest column on “The Bottom 10: Worst Software Disasters.” There, proudly at #10, is Microsoft Bob version 1.0a. In case you did not know, Microsoft Bob 1.0a combined the contents of Bob 1.00 and the Bob 1.0 Plus Pack to give you "all of Bob" in one package.
If you need a dose of Microsoft Bob overload, check out this Everything Bob page as well as this one. Be sure to scroll to the bottom to see how the author says Bob lived (lives) on.
Update 1: OK! OK! OK! I'm still getting too many hits on this silly software. Give it up people! Someone actually got this Bob thing to run under Virtual PC. Check out his blog entry here under the title Microsoft BOB lives!
Update 2: Let me try to make this clear. Microsoft Bob is Dead. Dead as in no longer designed, programmed, produced, distributed or sold. If you want it, you need to have Windows 3.0 or 3.1 as well as the hardware that could run it. You also need the Bob software. Look for Bob on eBay or at a computer show/swap meet. I do not believe anyone would be caught selling it publicly again. I fixed the Everything Bob link as well as adding another.