He should have used Powerpoint

When Steve Jobs gives a keynote, his presentations always seem flawless — in fact, most people with Macs wonder just how much they’ve souped up his presentation computer, because we can never get ours to work that fast.
So, wouldn’t you expect Microsoft to do the same when Bill Gates gets up to speak? His presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show was another demonstration of the computing disaster that is called Windows:

In his seventh annual keynote speech at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s chairman explained that the proliferation of broadband Internet access and the falling price of data storage are compelling people to put music, photos, movies and other aspects of their life into a digital format.

… But while promoting what he calls the “digital lifestyle,” Gates showed how vulnerable all consumers even the world’s richest man are to hardware and software bugs.

During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn’t respond to Gates’ pushing of the remote control.

Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded “blue screen of death” and warned, “out of system memory.”

The errors which came during what’s usually an ode to Microsoft’s dominance of the software industry and its increasing control of consumer electronics prompted the celebrity host, NBC comedian Conan O’Brien, to quip, “Who’s in charge of Microsoft, anyway?”

Gates, who was sitting next to O’Brien on a set staged to look like NBC’s Late Night set, smiled dryly and continued with his discussion.

… Although he accepted guffaws from audience members in the theater, the technical hiccups didn’t prompt Gates to engage in a hard-hitting analysis of computer reliability and security. Power outages, hardware failures and software bugs often inexplicably humble those who strive for a Windows-based digital lifestyle, and world’s most popular operating system is also a favorite target of hackers, virus writers, spies and spammers.