MS Surface Presentation Fail!

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No wonder web developers and even companies hate IE. I have nothing against Microsoft, Windows 7 is a brilliant OS, but they need to give up hopes on IE and design a browser from scratch. Here you can see a rather embarrassed presenter from Redmond showing off Internet Explorer on the Surface tablet when it freezes on him. How do you do a Ctrl + Alt + Del on a tablet?

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He could have dealt with it by joking about it or something. It felt a bit awkward watching him run to change the device and carrying on as if nothing had happened. That's just presentation skills though, no big deal overall - seeing as the product looks like it's got a lot of potential.

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TheLegendOfMart

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Presentation Fails, if you read carefully.

Again why is it a fail, he tries, it doesnt work, he picks up another from behind the desk, job done?

He could have dealt with it by joking about it or something. It felt a bit awkward watching him run to change the device and carrying on as if nothing had happened. That's just presentation skills though, no big deal overall - seeing as the product looks like it's got a lot of potential.

Yeah it was a bit cringeworthy but I'd take a Microsoft keynote over an Apple self congratulatory circle jerk keynote any day of the week.

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Big deal, life happens. Beside, Microsoft took precaution and decided to not streaming it live. Instead they waited a day to release an edited version to minimize the unwanted attention. Mind you the 'fail' is still in the edited cut. But no one would care beside the enthusiasts.

The media was positive and it's all that mattered as far as the Surface team is concerned.

What I got out of the whole 'secret' conference was that the Surface team was incredibly humbled in their presentation, and you can see it in the way they spoke and presented themselves. Steve Sinofsky was worried as heck to not disappoint his team, he did the best he could and babied that thing like his own kids.

Compared that to last week Apple's WWDC, they waited a whole week to edit their presentation and just released it yesterday. They cut their conference video clean like an inorganic Abercrombie store.

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Big deal, life happens. Beside, Microsoft took precaution and decided to not streaming it live. Instead they waited a day to release an edited version to minimize the unwanted attention. Mind you the 'fail' is still in the edited cut. But no one would care beside the enthusiasts.

The media was positive and it's all that mattered as far as the Surface team is concerned.

What I got out of the whole 'secret' conference was that the Surface team was incredibly humbled in their presentation, and you can see it in the way they spoke and presented themselves. Steve Sinofsky was worried as heck to not disappoint his team, he did the best he could and babied that thing like his own kids.

Compared that to last week Apple's WWDC, they waited a whole week to edit their presentation and just released it yesterday. They cut their conference video clean like an inorganic Abercrombie store.

The WWDC keynote was available later on the same day it was presented. What they just released yesterday were the actual session videos, which are probably edited but aren't intended for general viewing anyway.

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He could have just blamed it on wifi.

Yeah, Steve Jobs blamed it on the WiFi... the iPhone 4 was failing on stage, meanwhile it looked like the iPhone 3GS to the left of it was loading the internet just fine. Funny that...

Microsoft was demonstrating beta software on beta hardware, on ARM - a brand new hardware platform for WIndows NT, with beta drivers, and third party beta software running in the background... I don't see what could possibly go wrong :p

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