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A Taste of His Own Medicine
Windows 98 crashes during Gates' Comdex demo
Graphic April 20, 1998
Web posted at: 7:47 p.m. EDT (2347 GMT)
CHICAGO (CNN) -- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tried to demonstrate
his company's latest product Monday, but the product -- Windows 98
-- didn't cooperate.
Gates was demonstrating the newest version of Microsoft's Windows
operating system when it crashed during his presentation at the
Comdex Spring 1998 Convention. The software is supposed make
computers simpler to use.
"I guess we still have some bugs to work out," he said, smiling.
"That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet."
The system collapsed when a Microsoft employee attempted to plug a
scanner into the computer. Gates moved to another computer to
complete his presentation, which was demonstrating how Windows 98
will be simpler to use.
"While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always
work," he said.
Gates was the featured speaker at Comdex, a gathering of 85,000
computer professionals. He said Windows 98 will be far simpler to
use than the Windows 95 version, which has 150 million copies in
use. The new version uses a browser to find everything from
documents on an individual computer to Web sites on the Internet.
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