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"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."

 

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If you listen very closely you can actually hear engineers getting fired.



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Well, that's unfortunate xD


That's unfortunate indeed.
If it was me i would have dropped it to the floor "accidentally" before reaching for the backup lol.



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nen-suer said:
That's unfortunate indeed.
If it was me i would have dropped it to the floor "accidentally" before reaching for the backup lol.


That would make it more comical for sure instead of just laughing at the product itself.  Poor MS.  They should already know by now that copies are never as good as the original.



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cyberninja45 said:

 

If you listen very closely you can actually hear engineers getting fired.


lololol



Microsoft tend to do these every year, it became a tradition xD



Wow this works as good as they promised.
Even better than Kinect....Lets buy 30 Million pieces of that on day 1.....
Stuff Microsoft is showing never works...Not on the presentation and neither does it when its in the retail shop.
Don't know how they sell stuff - Such Videos should be shown in every shop so people don't get fooled anymore.



YukanaSenix said:
Wow this works as good as they promised.
Even better than Kinect....Lets buy 30 Million pieces of that on day 1.....
Stuff Microsoft is showing never works...Not on the presentation and neither does it when its in the retail shop.
Don't know how they sell stuff - Such Videos should be shown in every shop so people don't get fooled anymore.

Umm... not sure if serious.... 



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