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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 Touché! Friggin' Hilarious!

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--

http://www.microsoft.com/h/en-us/i/ts_800_25_Anti_Spyware2.jpg

--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!

rogozin,

That's a great little commercial. I'm "raising" my nieces and nephews on these commercials. They are so used to their parents argueing over the latest Windows virus, bug. They love my eMac. I'll buy one for them someday, just my little contribution to world peace.

"And to be fair, the Clicker incident wasn't Steve, it was that Canadian in the Blue Shirt we all know and love..."

Who's that?

(magic word is person) scary...

Yeah and dont forget the time when SJ got so pissed at the Mac he was using he threw the camera out into the crowd becasue it wouldnt sync up....

By the way, their Media Player and streaming totally sucks. I can't get it to play. It plays for 2 seconds and then spends the next 2 minutes trying to "buffer".

I forwarded this to every PC user I know. Does that make me uncharitable?

NoMacForYou, Steve Jobs did NOT throw the camera into the crowd! When the camera didn't sync with iPhoto, Steve noticed the camera was dead. He then tossed it underhand to his assistant sitting in the front row hoping he could fix it. After a few minutes, Steve saw his assistant shake his head indicating the camera was hopelessly broken, so Steve continued on with the rest of the presentation.

iPhoto and OS X were certainly not at fault for the problem.

You must give credit to Microsoft for having the balls to prominently post this fiasco on their home page. It is an indication that these problems are seen as being standard operating procedures.

I always hate it when content is in WMP too. Real or Quicktime is sooo much better.

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-!!!!

(*snort*)

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-

He deserves it, that rat bastard.

This story reminded me of a friend who began showing off his new $3000 HP Media Center PC set-up one day. He began by playing an archived copy of "The West Wing" and then while it was playing, tried to switch out of the TV functionality and do something else (all the while talking about how Microsoft did a really slick job with the Media Center).

Somewhere in the process, Windows screwed up and suddenly, you had two audio tracks of the "West Wing" episode playing at the same time (but only one video). The tracks were out of sync by a few seconds, as if someone started playing back two recordings at different times and turned the speakers to full on both.

Obviously, this was not supposed to be happening, so he tried to stop the episode from playing....except that he couldn't. After a few more seconds of trying to kill the now unwanted episode of West Wing, he suddenly said he might have been hit by a virus or a worm, and he need to run a full virus scan on his system so he would have to show off the media center functionality later.

You could not make this up if it were fiction...except with Microsoft, you don't need to.

Anyone notice this video is now down? maybe theyre busy editing out all the bugs, revisionist truth at its best

Hah. I tried to watch the video in both 100K and 300K and neither worked at all almost. The picture kept freezing for minutes at a time while the audio went on. Then everything would stop to rebuffer. NOW, they have pulled it entirely from the website and say that it will be available later today. What a bad impression of their buggy loser technology. This wasn't even close to being "good enough".

[Anyone notice this video is now down?]

Thanks for the link Ary.

Is there a different, more reliable source for this?

It wouldn't surprise me if somebody at Microsoft gets fired for allowing this to happen. That stuff won't get covered in the media news, however.

dang it, i was half way through the video when i had to go to bed last night, and this morning, my dad took my ibook to work, and i can't watch the rest of it on this mac cuz it is down, that sucks

LETS GO FLASH IPOD!

btw, i thought Conan was very funny, and looked like a giant sitting next to small mousy bill, who was at least a foot and a half below conan

I had it stored in the Media Player's "Favorites" so I could see it quickly whenever it came back from the dead. Now, it just says "Please, Stand By" in bold letters with classical music in the background for 3 mins.

This same thing happened to Apple in... ah... um... no... wait... this never happened to Apple.

My guesses are that their almighty powerful Windows server got overloaded with hits from Mac users looking for these precious on-stage Bill moments. Knowing this, they are probably editing out the "undesirable" parts, thus reducing the number of viewers and along with it, the server load.

This doubly stinks for Microsoft being that they are trying to capitalize upon the consumer Electronics Show. All these people trying to see all of these great MEDIA products from Microsoft, and they can't even stream a simple lo-res video that is produced, edited and streamed by themselves. No one else to blame.

Microsoft: Crapware for the next century!

Hobbes
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".

That was at the WWDC for Panther. He had a script rigged up to show how fast you can scroll through a PDF. So whatever problems he had it was with the demonstration script, not a feature on the final shipping software. Either way he managed to really emphasize how fast Preview scrolled through a long complex PDF. Nothing crashed.

Windows is so fucking great that even Microsoft's CEO can't bloody use it!

CLASSIC COMEDY - INFRONT OF THE WORLDS IT PRESS TOO!!!

LLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!

Great one Bill!

Keep this up and not even you will want to use windows!!!!

Hey all - click on the link!

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/ces2005/default.mspx

It seems that the 'video of Bill's Cock-up Keynote is not available now'

I assume someone in the Mac Business Unit at M$ HQ is editing out all the bloppers in final cut Pro HD!!!

LOL!!!!!

This is obviously all a comedic mock up, meant to show Bill's humourous side. Family Guy would be waaay funnier, and less dorky.

Does MS even use their own products?? Do they even TRY?!?! Good grief; how could such a rich company pull off such an unprepared and unprofessional demonstration at such a high-profile event?!?!

Imagine a global auto maker doing a high-profile demonstration at the Tokyo or Detroit auto shows, and having several of their vehicles break down on stage. It'd be utter disaster, the auto maker would be RUINED. Yet somehow MS does the software industry equivalent and lives another day.

Apple, for God's sake CAPITALIZE ON THIS!! When the company CEO can't even make his own products work, something is very, very wrong.

"Apple, for God's sake CAPITALIZE ON THIS!! When the company CEO can't even make his own products work, something is very, very wrong."

I don't think Microsoft's CEO is Lord Bill. I believe he gave that to our buddy Steve Ballmer in 2000 (could be wrong). I might be wrong on this too, but I think Bill is the lead software architect (hmmm... reminiscient of The Matrix?). And he's the Chairman of MS, not the CEO... but I could be wrong.

Dark Side,

Yeah I probably botched whatever Billy's current position is, but the point is the same. He's the man you think of when you mention MS. He better know what's going on, especially when doing high-profile demos. If he can't make it work, nobody can.

Could you imagine a Sony executive doing a high-profile PlayStation demo & have things go so wrong? Not in a million years.

It makes you wonder how things really are inside MS when they can't even get the demos right. Remember how sick Apple was when Amelio stepped in, yet nobody knew until later? Call me nuts but I firmly believe that MS's Longhorn will end up being a direct equivalent of Apple's Copland, and that this botched demo is just a symptom of MS's real current health.

Maybe these bllopers will land here:

http://www.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/movies.html