During his annual keynote speech at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates suffered technical glitches thanks to his Windows operating system...
"During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn't respond to Gates' pushing of the remote control.
Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded "blue screen of death" and warned, "out of system memory."
The errors which came during what's usually an ode to Microsoft's dominance of the software industry and its increasing control of consumer electronics prompted the celebrity host, NBC comedian Conan O'Brien, to quip, "Who's in charge of Microsoft, anyway?"
Gates, who was sitting next to O'Brien on a set staged to look like NBC's Late Night set, smiled dryly and continued with his discussion."
The whole story is here.
Un-freaking-believable.
Posted by todd at January 06, 2005 12:31 PM | Trackback
And yet, somehow, I don’t have any trouble believing it. Go figure.
Posted by: Shepcat on January 6, 2005 01:05 PMI remember this happening almost every time Uncle Bill went to CES during the Win3.11/95/98/ME days, but didn’t know that’s he is still having these problems. Ahhhh…life on the bleeding edge, eh?
Posted by: db on January 8, 2005 11:36 AM