"Oops! The excruciating moment Microsoft's Surface tablet crashes on stage - in repeat of Bill Gates' Windows 98 'blue screen of death' moment.
Its been a mantra ever since Microsoft first launched Windows: Your computer will always fail you at the time you need it most. And many of us will have led presentations when Powerpoint suddenly crashes or your computer forces a restart, leading to a litany of four-letter words.But spare a thought for Steven Sinofsky, the President of Windows and Windows Live Division. He introduced Microsoft's latest weapon in the technology war - the Surface tablet - to an excited crowd in Hollywood yesterday. But - right in the middle of his talk - the tablet appeared to crash, leading to an excruciating 20 seconds as he talked around the hiccup, before popping behind the podium to grab a luckily-prepared backup.
The embarrassing technical glitch brings back memories of Bill Gates in April 1995, who was presenting a pre-launch version of Windows 98 live on national TV."
If you listen very closely you can actually hear engineers getting fired.
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