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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the edge-cases dept.

Submitted via IRC for soycow1

In just a few words, Microsoft Edge froze while the engineer was working with virtual machines in the browser, and judging from how fast he proceeded to downloading Google Chrome, this wasn't the first time it happened. Because, you know, sometimes reloading the page or restarting the browser does help, but you can't risk hitting the same error twice, right?

"I love it when demos break," he said. "So while we're talking here, I'm gonna go install Chrome," he continued before he started laughing, with many people in the audience cheering.

"And we're going to not make Google better," he added when unchecking the box to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google, as if this made things less worse. "We're going to do this again, I'm sorry about this. The age of these machines are [sic] wacked down a little bit, there are some things that just don't work."

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-engineer-installs-google-chrome-during-presentation-after-edge-freezes-518291.shtml

[ I'm sure there are at least a few Soylentils here who have had things go "pear shaped" during a presentation or demo. Let us hear your horror stories. - Ed]


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:48PM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:48PM (#590981) Journal

    +11 Hahaha! Serves him right for using MS products in the first place!
    ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:34PM (2 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:34PM (#591230) Journal

    Serves him right for using MS products in the first place

    Why is this modded funny? I have this same thought every time I can't sign in at the Dr.'s office kiosk because instead of the sign-in screen, it is presenting patients the "Windows needs to be updated" or "Sod off, Windows is busy updating" (i.e. "Windows is unsuitable for actual commercial use") screens.

    • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:56PM (1 child)

      by Osamabobama (5842) on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:56PM (#591378)

      It's funny because (from the headline) he was a Microsoft engineer. You see, to imply that a Microsoft engineer shouldn't use Microsoft products goes against our expectations, which makes it funny.

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      • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:24PM

        by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:24PM (#591410) Journal

        It's funny because (from the headline) he was a Microsoft engineer. You see, to imply that a Microsoft engineer shouldn't use Microsoft products goes against our expectations, which makes it funny.

        Ah, thanks. I got the funny "Microsoft engineer" connection in the headline originally ("MS Engineer Installs Google Chrome"), but had lost it by the time I got down to the "serves him right" with which by that point my ADD had me simply agreeing....