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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Oops: Blue Screen Of Death Interrupts Gates' CES Show

TechWeb reports that Bill Gates' CES presentation was interrupted by a BSoD. The only problem with this article is that the presentation was apparently on an Xbox. Xboxes don't BSoD, they "GSoD"--the error screen is green, not blue. I don't know if the unnamed reporter got the details of the presentation wrong or is reporting second-hand news, but something is not right about this.
Six years ago, at another tech conference, a Windows 98 demontration also conducted by Gates crashed with a BSoD. The linked article includes a QuickTime clip of the crashed demo; note the audience hooting when it happens.

Edit to add: There were at least three gaffes during the Conan O'Brien/Bill Gates keynote, one of which was during an Xbox demo. The BSoD seems to have occured during a Nikon camera demo.
|| Andrew, 11:49 AM || ||

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