The moment will never be forgotten. It was only a few years ago when Bill Gates was introducing the new Plug-and-Play features of the Windows 98 operating system that the computer crashed while an assistant was attaching a scanner.
This time the location was the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and the crash happened during Wednesday's keynote address. Bill Gates was demonstrating a new Nikon camera with a WinXP Media Center Edition PC when the computer simply stopped responding. Adding insult to injury, the "Blue Screen of Death" appeared later in the presentation when a product manager was demonstrating the video game Forza Motor Sport, expected to be available in April.
The speech was set up as a mock episode of Conan O'Brien's Late Night show, which included a stand-up routine by O'Brien and Bill Gates standing in as the show's guest. As the crash happened, in perfect Conan-fashion O'Brien asked, "Who's in charge of Microsoft, anyway?"
Thats just classic. In releated news, Macworld San Francisco starts monday :)
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