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| Bill Gates’ System Crashes with Blue Screen of Death |
| 2005-01-06 |
| oops Bill Gates's legendary luck failed him during his keynote presentation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The best evidence for why MSFT is a monopoly is that they don't care about working in operating system reliability, preferring to focus on embedding a media player, calling it an operating system "enhancement." His demonstration of Microsoft Media Center crashed during the presentation on integrating digital photography, and later a Microsoft product manager failed to access the internet with a Tablet PC. He should be used to that sort of thing by now. A new game, Forza Motor Sport, also triggered the dreaded Windows blue screen of death. it's not a bug. it's a feature. The presentation started on a jokey theme, with late-night TV host Conan O'Brien presenting a mock version of his own show and a video diary of his and Bill's 'lost weekend' in Las Vegas. "I got too drunk, I woke up with a hooker," O'Brien said. "Bill got too drunk, he woke up with an Apple computer." O'Brien said that he was unable to criticise Microsoft because it had implanted a Pentium in his brain, and suggested that Gates should be played by Milhouse from The Simpsons. But his banter was less welcome when things started to go wrong. "OK, and right now nine people are being fired," O'Brien said as they waited for a slide show to appear. Gates traditionally has a reputation for being lucky at showing off software to its best effect. A major slip occurred at a Windows 98 demo at Comdex in 1998 that went into blue screen mode, but Gates returned the next year to successfully show off the progress that had been made. |
| Posted by:PlanetDan |
| #9 Not half as embarrassing as having this guy as your CEO. |
| Posted by: AJackson 2005-01-06 7:36:17 PM |
| #8 Zhang: yep....all you really get now is a boring little dialog asking if you want to send the info to Bill & Co. Now with Mac OSX, one can cause "kernel panic" and get a "Black Screen of Death" Very kewl! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2005-01-06 6:39:28 PM |
| #7 Well public embarrassment is a thing Bill G has down. This isn't the first time this has happened. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-01-06 5:23:48 PM |
| #6 This is too weird. I stopped getting BSOD's starting with Windows 2000. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-01-06 5:23:02 PM |
| #5 hee hee BAr |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-01-06 4:54:58 PM |
| #4 Heh! Indeed! |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-01-06 4:30:34 PM |
| #3 Who built my machine? Have them killed... |
| Posted by: Bill Gates 2005-01-06 4:22:08 PM |
| #2 O’Brien said that he was unable to criticise Microsoft because it had implanted a Pentium in his brain,.. He's not the first one. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-06 3:25:37 PM |
| #1 Rehearse Dammit! Famous last woids.... the presenttion didn't take this long to load on my desktop.... it's just pictures. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-01-06 3:20:19 PM |