Gates' presentation held up by Windows

[}{arlequin]

http://www.macminute.com/2005/01/06/gates/

[Moses]

OH, THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!


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.'"

[911pcars]

It was probably a virus .... windoz code.

Sherwood

[widebody911]

This isn't the first time this has happened.

[nostatic]

I've never seen a Mac give a BSOD (or unix equivalent) during one of Steve's keynotes. You can hear a couple of MS tech geeks being fired as we type...

[djmcmath]

My Linux box only dies when I trip over the cords and yank wires out of the wall. It dislikes having power forcefully removed. Maybe my experience is an anomaly?

[bryanthompson]

djm, I've had the same experience... I've used linux for years, never seen a lock up. The only time I could get my apple to lock up was when I tried to open every program at once. Whoo, that was fun

Windows, on the other hand... I won't touch it. Any of my friends that use it know not to ask me for help--I'll just give them Fedora install disks

[widebody911]

The only OS I've never seen lock up was MPE.

[azasadny]

My Linux PC crashed last month and required a complete reload of the OS. Every OS out there has flaws, it all boils down to "which one supports the applications you use"?

[bell]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts


One thing though - Windows XP is pretty darn good with respect to stability...

-Wayne

wayne...i've been running xp pro for about 2 years
the blue screen of death is part of my life now.........

[JavaBrewer]

I develop Java apps on these boxes 50 hours a week and have not seen the BSOD since Windoz 98. Win2K, NT4, and XP-Pro are very stable. Avoid crap 3rd party software and periphials and be realistic with the amount of open apps you have. Every OS has it's flaws it's just that MS is the target of choice for the malcontents in the world due to it's majority user base. You like/love/worship Mac or a Unix flavor, great, use it and move on with life.

Back on topic, there is no excuse for what happened at the presentation. I think it was the demo PM and his team that got the deep six, not the developers.