Blue screen of death crashes (Bill) Gates at CES (Consumer Electronic Show

[UpInArms]

http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160317

Bill Gates's legendary luck failed him during his keynote presentation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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.

A new game, Forza Motor Sport, also triggered the dreaded Windows blue screen of death.

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[bemildred]

1. Time to retire, Bill. nt

[Verve]

2. Yeah! He's what 40?

He's getting too old!!!!

[NYC]

4. Or stop selling products before they are ready

for the consumer.

[ixion]

6. exactly... M$ set the standard for releasing buggy software

prior to that, it was considered very bad form.

Talk about lowering the bar. :eyes:

[GAspnes]

3. oh my goodness that's funny

I always hated demoing alpha software at COMDEX. It's hard to bite your nails when your fingers are crossed.

[iam]

13. "It's hard to bite your nails when your fingers are crossed".

That's a brilliant snippet of wisdom. And very funny!

[ixion]

5. ROFLMAO

so nice that Gates gets a little taste of the garbage he peddles at top dollar prices. :evilgrin:

[parasim]

7. That's hilarious

I remember the same thing happening to him at Comdex at the launch of Windows 95 if I remember correctly.

Good ol' Micro$oft... always good for a chuckle... well... gotta get back to work, on my Mac... heehee

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Poor Intel-based PC hardware gets a bad rep.

It isn't that bad if treated with proper care (i.e., a decent OS *cough*Linux*cough*)

Macs are OK in my book tho'.

[haktar]

17. I agree

He should have used vdr and vlc as multimedia center :-)

[kick-ass-bob]

8. Again?

This has happened before (more than once)

[Allenberg]

9. Karma always wins.

[AlCzervik]

10. Bwwwaaaaa!

[redqueen]

11. And it would matter if businesses would stop lapping his crap up.

Watch while they don't.

[burythehatchet]

12. he should try a Mac

[jmowreader]

14. There's an old joke about new Microsoft products

And that is that Microsoft is the only company in the industry who releases two public betas, but calls them "Version 1.0" and "Version 2.0." Version 3.0 is the final release.

They use the sales derived from selling their public betas to finance finishing the program.

[bill]

16. The only thing MS could build that wouldn't suck

would be vaccum cleaners