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January 08, 2005

Behind the Bugs during Bill G.'s CES Keynote

For those of you who hadn't heard, Bill Gates CES keynote was marred by three crash/errors last Wednesday. Now, Sean Alexander, product manager for Windows Media Center edition, has posted his behind the scenes post-mortem on what actually happened on his blog, Addicted to Digital Media. Interesting read, for sure. If it had been my call, I would never have tried to run both Sean's demo as well as the Conan/Bill demo off a single machine far across the stage. Nobody expects real-world in these demos, so the notion that it would be best to play off a single machine with all kinds of enhancements like a USB booster just doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyway, Sean is a great guy (I know him from some dev work I've done with MCE), so kudos to him for his open report on the incident.

  • Link to Sean's blog here. He's been slashdotted, so it may be tough to get to it at times.

    Posted by jetrotz at January 8, 2005 03:50 PM

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