RE: Bill Gates gets another blue screen in public -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Chuck Lewis wrote:

That wasn't all he was doing Walden and I thought the same thing at that
point but:

Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the
ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores
in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed
race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded "blue screen of death"
and warned, "out of system memory."

The fact that there was a crash in the presentation isn't the issue, neither is that they presented non-working software. The problem is the way it crashed. A bug in a game, now matter how bad, should never ever take the whole system with it. A media application, a word processor, a web browser - all of these should never, ever, ever be able to take a system down. The demonstration doesn't show how bad MS games and media apps are, it shows how utterly awful and dangerous the MS platform is.

James Rich

It's not the software that's free; it's you.
        - billyskank on Groklaw

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