AllThingsD » Mojave Experiment http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:49:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 A New Microsoft Windows Ad, I Suppose? http://allthingsd.com/20080812/olympicbsod/ http://allthingsd.com/20080812/olympicbsod/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:45:02 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=3161
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” …

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