A New Microsoft Windows Ad, I Suppose?
by John Paczkowski
Posted on August 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM PT
I’m not sure which is more humiliating, the fact that the opening ceremony for this year’s Olympics in China culminated with the unwitting projection of the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) onto the roof of the National Stadium, presumably in full view of Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates, who was in the audience. Or that the organizers of the event decided to run Windows XP, and not Vista, on their PCs and were happy to explain why. Said Lenovo Chairman Yang Yuanqing about Vista, “If it’s not stable, it could have some problems.”
Perhaps this is all part of that new Vista ad campaign, the “Mojave Experiment” …
[Image credit: PowerApple.com]
Comments
Good thing Windows wasn’t controlling the harness flying Li Ning 70 meters off the ground around the roof of the “Bird’s Nest.”
Posted by Eric Welch at August 13th, 2008 at 8:07 am