Microsoft Japan’s CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi has been humiliated live on stage as Microsoft’s glitzy Akihabara Windows 7 launch event was turned to farce by a failure of the operating system’s glitch prone touchpanel support…
Flanked by two spandex clad warriors, Microsoft’s top man in Japan attempted to demonstrate the superiority of Windows 7 to the assembled crowd.
However, from about 3 minutes in Mr Higuchi has evident trouble getting his touchscreen to do anything…
“The light is a bit strong…”
Coming so soon after a complete failure of the system live on Japanese morning TV, this is nothing less than a PR disaster, and a probable personal humiliation to poor Mr Higuchi, who can be seen making a speedy exit, doubtless with the intent of making some very nasty phone calls.
Some are wondering whether they might not wish to stop playing up their evidently useless touchpanel features and instead focus their efforts on the delectable Nanami Madobe, who at least will not malfunction embarrassingly at major marketing events…
I dunno how many of you remember when Bill Gates was demoing Windows 98 only to have it BSOD on him. Now THAT was embarrassing.
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this is why i use linux 😀
LOL ! Fuxking MS did it again. I got a new VAIO in Aug, so they mailed me a free U/G copy of Windows7, but I am not using it simply because of MS’s famous history of bugs-full new products, maybe 6 months later. This Vista only giving me minor headaches, so I will bare with it.
Yeah. I second suggestions should find out whether it’s a resistive or capacitive touchscreen and the proper gestures. Technicians might tested it out beforehand, but maybe not the presenter.
Riding on the wave of suggestions for Nanami-tan to appear live, if only they would do it a la Miku Hatsune concert. [i]Pipo Pipo ni Shite Ageru[/i] anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1U3h6-iDc