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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."
[ 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]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @01:13PM (5 children)
Still not as funny as when Windows 98 BSOD:ed when Gates was showing it at Comdex'98 after trying to install a plug-n-play scanner.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:18PM
In that case, win98 was still in development. That's a little different, but then, I guess it can be said the same of windows 10, except everyone agreed in the eula that it may not work for them.
win98 was expected to work upon install, something MS has managed to get out of via their distribution methods and updating arrangements that users must agree to.
(Score: 3, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:10PM (3 children)
Still not as funny as Windows 95 not launching until 1996.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:56PM
You are fake news.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:11PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:25PM
Thanks for that, fog of memory. I know we didn't write anything to run on it until summer of '96, I don't think we purchased any machines with Window '95 on them until after SP1 came out in February of '96. But, yes indeed, Windows '95 was making grown men cry in late August of 1995.
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