” There is nothing worse than your product crashing while you’re demoing it in front of hundreds, if not thousands of people,” Caleb Hicks blogs for Zagg. “Unfortunately for Microsoft, it happened yet again. Unfortunately for us, it wasn’t caught on video. However, The Register reports that a new Windows 8 tablet froze during a demo of Windows 8′s new Metro user interface.”
Hicks reports, “The Microsoft exec demonstrating the tablet operating system brushed off the incident saying: ‘This is a work in progress folks, as you can see here. I think this is a good proof point that this is actually real stuff that we’re showing.'”
“I can certainly understand the ‘work in progress’ part,” Hicks writes. “Having a hiccup while demoing unreleased software doesn’t bother me. But I take issue with the second part. What does that even mean? Other stuff that people are demoing isn’t ‘real stuff?’ No. Other people rigorously test their product through all of it’s paces to make sure it’s going to work before demoing it.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What do you expect? It’s Microsoft! After 30+ years, being lazy and doing things in a half-assed manner becomes ingrained.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
