Even Bill Gates has technical glitches.
January 6, 2005 by Mike Wendland
After chalking up over 14,000 steps yesterday on my pedometer - that’s over seven miles - traipsing all over this town and the huge CES show, it’s off and running again this morning.
The highlight so far: The blue screen of death that showed up during a demo as Bill Gates was outlining Microsoft’s plans for the future during his keynote.
That was just one of several glitches that had the audience in stitches, primarily because the format Gates used in the keynote had him being interviewed by NBC-TV’s Conan O’Brien. A remote control that Gates was using failed to show some photos not once but twice, prompting O’Brien to quip: “Who’s in charge of Microsoft, anyway?”
Gates seemed to take it all in stride with a smile.
Just goes to show… technology will never be completely tamed.
It goes to show me, that if the richest man in the world, who likely has his best engineers set up his demos, cannot make Windows behave, how are the regular folks supposed to make it happen????
There are no doubt positions available in MS’s engineering department this very day. Gates takes it in stride publicly, but this type of thing is highly embarrassing to the head of a software company, and heads will roll, I am sure.
Hmmmm…, this kind of thing never seems to happen in a Steve Jobs keynote.
Has ANYONE EVER seen a major technology glitch in one of Steve’s speecheds?
Yes it’s happen to Jobs, not as often as Gates but it’s happend. Previous Keynots are floating around on the net check em out.
I only remember the camera incident
Yes, several years ago, Steve Jobs was demoing a digital camera, and it failed. He ended the demo, and tossed the camera off the stage to a waiting Apple employee. He was not happy.
I think the closest was when a clicker to control the slide show wouldn’t work. An assistant tossed him a new one and Steve remarked, “Apple doesn’t make these.”
What’s worse is Windows users that will wallow in sympathy for Gates, pure denial style: “Oh well, the guy has the same problems as us users, he can’t be that bad”. Probably the Blue Screens of Death were planned to soften some of the users most prone to the Stockolm Syndrome generated by years of Windows abuse…
BSD is blue screen of death to most, and is Berkeley Software Distribution to the lucky few… Long live open source, even if by Microsoft standards, open source and the Creative Commons licences are the modern day equivalent to communism. Being against widespread sharing of human knowledge at the lowest possible cost is downright dictatorial.
Bill “Big Brother MacroScrooge” Gates deserves public humiliation at every turn, what’s good is that it’s his monstrous creations that serve it to him!
It sure would be nice if Microsoft could incorporate into their Windows XP or any of the others that would block Spyware.
Since I got on this Blog I have had nothing but problems with spyware. Sometimes it seems I just geet into it and all these crazy things begin happening. I can handle the ’spam’ better than the Spyware.
Eileen, there is no spyware on this blog.
But if you use Microsoft IE you have soyware… it’s a magnet for it.
I, often, wonder if you are really such a mac fan or is Apple affording you some desireable consideration for your constant raving about the products. Not that it matters. I’ve used both mac and windows and have had little trouble with windows. About the same with mac. Perhaps that is because I take a few precautions and use common sense when on the internet, etc.