Windows 98 presentation fail (HQ)

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Bill Gates, Windows 98, Blue Screen of Death

[VideoAmericanStyle]

To be fair, this WAS an accurate demonstration of what consumers could expect with Windows 98 😂

[YeoYeo]

I love how Windows 98 was so messed up that even the Blue Screen of Death couldn’t load properly

[JM-wngu]

That Bill Gates "I'll see you after the presentation" smile is more horrifying than any horror movies.

[openmndead]

Kudos to those guys. Decades later, they still manage to provide exactly the same experience. Stability ftw!

[Kyntteri]

I bet the demo guy had a good laugh at home later that same night. Right before his heart attack.

[computercomputer]

Microsoft then: "We still got a little work to do."

Microsoft now: "Force the update anyway, who cares if it breaks the user's computer."

[JohndenHaanAU]

“Moving right along”. Dude handled this like a champ.

[seths]

so the story I heard about this is that they DID practice this multiple times and was working. problem is, each time they did it, it leaked memory so that when it came time for the live demo, it had leaked enough to cause a system crash

[MinosDaedalus]

The switch to Windows 2000 from Win98 was a Godsend for me. That OS was stable as fuck compared to 98.

[angelanavarrete]

It wasn't until Windows XP that they used the NT technology. One of the good things about NT is that they got rid of segmentation with paging in memory management. They started using the so called flat memory model. Only one code segment, one data segment and one stack segment, and all of them are actually the same: it starts at memory address 0 and extends all the way to the end of physical memory.

[n-o-i-d]

Plug and Play? More like Plug and Pray

[DaxtonAnderson]

I love how the crowd was accepting and cheered, then the presenter said "we have some work to do"
Nowadays everyone in the audience would be placed under NDA and that would have NEVER gotten into the media 😂

[gennadyzyablitsev]

2022 this shit still happens during "loading appropriate drivers"

[TheLukasz]

Actually, back then, blue screens were recoverable. Notice the "it may be possible to continue normally" bit :)

[edz]

Ahhh Windows 98. Still in so many cash machines, train stations and shop epos systems in 2023. It may be very much end of life but there are many IT support heroes still driving out to remote locations and having to support such an amazing OS. Long live the Windoze.

[GeekSP]

Bill gate thinking *"today I failed, tomorrow I will dominate. For now let them laugh."*

[admoran]

Love how they start cheering and clapping over a fail

[DekritGampamole]

The blue screen that we all love. It even showed up in the Olympic opening.

[BassGuitarGuy]

its like watching two high schoolers fumbling through a presentation on frog anatomy

[foadahadi]

Win 98, Win XP and Win 7 are the best ones of all time, I’ve Great memories from them and currently I’m using Win 7 still