It is safe to say that most tech savvy people have seen the Windows Vista speech recognition demonstration gone wrong, but how often has something like this happened in the past? I went searching for other videos to see what I could find and I managed to scrounge up a few good ones:
For those of you who haven’t seen the Vista speech recognition video:
The reason why Windows 98 wasn’t released “yet”:
Bill Gates on Conan…that was a mistake to begin with! This video is a mix of 3 different demonstrations that had some issues:
I guess you can see how things sometimes don’t go quite as you would expect them to. Maybe one of the problems is that they always demo Windows before it gets released and they run into a few unexpected bugs. Even though I do feel bad for the people I still can’t help but laugh.
| Update: | “Nate the Great” submitted a link to the video I posted below. It is of MacWorld Bloopers and I think the end of the movie sums it up pretty well: “It’s pretty awesome when it works”… |
Always embarrassing, but it happens to the best of them.
Did you see this year’s WWDC keynote? While one of Steve Jobs’ stand-ins was demonstrating time machine, iPhoto crashed and he had to restart the machine to continue the demonstration. On stage.
I actually didn’t hear about that but I’m surprised that I can’t find a video of it somewhere.
Okay, to be fair you should probably put this video up too [youtube.com]
and Ryan W. he didnt have to restart the machine, he just had to restart iPhoto then everything was fine.
Hmm, really? It looked like he flicked a switch on a piece of hardware as if to load a pre-set show config or something, but then I was watching it while bored at 3am so my memory might be slightly hazy.
Sorry guys, I accidentally made the post private after updating it which is why it disappeared.