Microsoft’s Bill Gates’ opening keynote at CES did not go entirely to plan, but, then again, when does it ever when Windows is powering the show?
“Bill Gates’s legendary luck failed him during his keynote presentation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,” Iain Thomson reports for vnunet.com. “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.”
“The presentation started on a jokey theme, with late-night TV host Conan O’Brien presenting a mock version of his own show and a video diary of his and Bill’s ‘lost weekend’ in Las Vegas. ‘I got too drunk, I woke up with a hooker,’ O’Brien said. ‘Bill got too drunk, he woke up with an Apple computer,'” Thomson reports.
Full article here.
Well SJ had a problem a few of Keynotes ago if you remember. Comething with his “clicker” if I remember?
Can’t type, laughing too hard
Apple probably didn’t make the cicker.
This is the second time a computer has crashed on Bill Gates and spewed egg all over his face.
Here’s the first one
http://ultimategamers.org/temp/win98crash.qt
There is also pictures floating around the net where Gates got drunk at a basketball game and when helped by his security guards to exit crossing the court fell flat on his face.
I wish I could find it, the closeups of his face was glorious!!
Of course there is one where Bill Gates gets nailed in the face with a pie.
Links people, Links!!
yeah.. good one pkradd.. the clicker didn’t click.. how devastating..
SJ walked casually over to the desk and was handed another clicker that worked fine, and he commented “Apple doesn’t make these” and laughed..
How embarrassing..
Pffft…
And of course, Bill Gates was showing off how great the software was.. and the software crashed.. soooo.. you can’t begin to compare them..
What a freakin’ joke.. oh well.. lucky for him he doesn’t have to be a good salesman.. he’s got a monopoly..
Who needs Conan when you have Microsoft who is even funnier!
Not once but 3 tiimes something failed.
LOL Touch�! Friggin’ Hilarious!
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classic
apple needs to promote thier software by doing nothing but showing bill in action demonstrating his “great” software
the world would come running to Mac
make it so
Funny!
But Steve Jobs had a problem once when showing off “Preview”. He wanted to show how fast preview was scrolling through thousends of pages, and the friggin’ thing just didn’t want to stop scrolling, lol.
“Hopefully it won’t start all over again… oops”.
I thought that was pretty funny, too.
Just finished watching the whole thing. This keynote has to be considered a complete failure. It wasn’t just a clicker problem. There were way too many failures. (Out of system memory on the X-Box–oops!)
In fact, the SBC Media Center integration demo seemed to be the only one that went off without a hitch. That looked great.
Also, Apple’s Quicktime has streamed so smoothly for more than the past 3 years of keynotes. Windows media spent half the time for me with audio but no video. How hard can it be to copy Quicktime’s technology, guys?
You can smile now, but soon, when Bill sells you the same crap, just imagine who would be laughing all the way to the bank.
Hobbes said:
“But Steve Jobs had a problem once when showing off “Preview”. He wanted to show how fast preview was scrolling through thousends of pages, and the friggin’ thing just didn’t want to stop scrolling, lol.
“Hopefully it won’t start all over again… oops”.
I thought that was pretty funny, too.”
Actually he clicked the button that ran through the document to many times (3 in fact). It still ran the document faster than Acrobat did.
WOW, what an embarrassment!
I’m not a drinking man, but if I can get drunk and wake up with an Apple computer then BRING ON THE BOOZE!!
Anyone remember “Crowd Control”, Apple’s commercial that was seen as their response to the release of Win95?
http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/crowd-control.html
I believe the saying is ‘life imitating art’!!!
(this post brought to you by the word ‘progress’, believe it or not…)
And on the opposite end of the scale, several keynotes ago some mainstream reporters wrote that Jobs video-conferenced with Bono and Mick Jagger via a satellite connection, when it was actually iChat over the Internet! Darned Apple stuff works too well…
Can they do anything right?. They even err while cheating. Remember when they were cought cheating at their antitrust trial?. What a bunch!
And to be fair, the Clicker incident wasn’t Steve, it was that Canadian in the Blue Shirt we all know and love…
Open Minded:
can you give us the link of the keynote? I just don’t see it anywhere. Am I blind?
Schadenfreude. More quality news that we’ve come to expect here.
I love the way Bill just smiles through it all. I bet I know what he’s thinking: (“that’s precious…, ha!, people won’t care, Bill, they’re so used to our buggy software , just emphasize the fact that they have a greater number of choices with us and everything will be O.K., …that’s precious”)
I was at the ’98 Chicago comdex when Win98 was being launched. Laughed my ass off.
I am starting to think Microsoft is more incompetent than evil.
This is an impression fostered by not only watching Gates’s public, webcast humiliation at CES, but a recent “behind-the-scenes” video of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft posted at http://channel9.msdn.com (one of Microsoft’s endearingly awful propaganda sites). The guys shown on the tour are, unmistakably, complete bumblers–suddenly a lot of things about Word began to make more sense to me.
The capper, though, is this soon-to-vanish picture–
–from the front of Microsoft’s web site, trumpeting the release of their desperately needed anti-spyware effort. The model in the picture is of course looking at a Titanium PowerBook G4–which means that he’ll have to look long and hard to find any spyware on it! It really is a bit pathetic that the organization could have become so large, shapeless, and semi-competent that embarrassing things like this now happen not just regularly, but several times a day.
gRen, there is a link to the stream on microsoft.com, but it’s in wmv format and it’s not working with VLC. I don’t want to and won’t download Windows Media Player to watch it (My computer is Microsoft-free thank you). Somebody need to convert it to QuickTime.
The link is here… http://www.microsoft.com/athome/ces2005/default.mspx …if you are interested.
rogozhin:
If only Apple had the guts to do this sort of advertising today! They could have a field day and so could we!
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