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Microsoft's Technical Glitches at CES Explained

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the best-laid-plans dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Sean Alexander is one of the guys on the Media Center Team at Microsoft who was involved in the CES presentation with Bill Gates. Sean also runs a very interesting blog called Addicted to Digital Media. Gates and Microsoft have taken a lot of heat over the course of the last two days for the technical glitches in Microsoft's presentation at CES. Sean offers us the rare glimpse on why the glitches happened and what it's like to be backstage at the big Microsoft presentation at CES. Very good follow up on Sean's part." Update: 01/08 19:03 GMT by T : Hawk writes with a static link to Alexander's story.

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  1. Service Unavailable by freaksta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seem Sean must be running Media Center to host his blogs.

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  2. The blog is down! /.ted! by raeldc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is this news meant to bring down the blog site? because i think it went down! /.ted! http://blog.seanalexander.com/PermaLink,guid,586ba c82-e272-44f7-a439-a3d1e6176aef.aspx it says "Service unavailable" when I visited it.

  3. Service Unavailable by canuck57 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I click on the link and get "Service Unavailable". Both humourous and typical given this discusses the presentation crashing.

  4. Re:Grow a brain before typing! by beuges · · Score: 0, Redundant

    no sir, your brain is not registering that THERE WAS NO BSOD AT THE DEMONSTRATION. did you even watch the video of the presentation? can you tell me at which point the machine blue-screened? ok, maybe you didnt watch the demo. did you read the article? in which sean alexander, who was actually on stage and CONTINUED USING THE VERY SAME BOX THAT YOU CLAIM TO HAVE BSOD'd explains why bill gates's remote control had no effect on the presentation? thanks to /.'s sensationalist headline and article, everyone now thinks that gates' media center box crashed. IT DID NO SUCH THING. he tried to navigate the box using his remote, and it didnt respond. go and read the article and sean alexander explains why. now, please go and download that video, and point me to the exact point where the machine bsod'd, and i will post a retraction to what i said above.

  5. Re:Deja vu by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unlike Apple, Microsoft does not have tight control over the hundreds of thousands of parts that go into the development of a PC. At least Apple can maintain a high level of quality control over hardware along with their OS.

    I would say that almost always a BSOD is caused by a 3rd party device driver or bad RAM (or faultly memory timing). But that said, microsoft should have at least burned in that PC before using it in the presentation had it been a hardware/driver.

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