January 06, 2005
Microsoft Shows Us The Future
As everybody knows by now, Bill Gates gave us the laugh of the month during his yesterday's CES keynote. The Microsoft CES keynote web page, which also has streaming video of the keynote (currently unavailable...) promises us to "see the future. today." Ironically, the future, according to Microsoft, does not differ much from today.
Well, to spare you the viewing of the lengthy, and, apart from Conan O'Brien's jokes, rather boring event, below is the most interesting part of it (about 1:13:35 into the video, during the Forza Motorsport demo):
As one can see, this is an apparently new strain of the well known species of the "bluescreen". This one presents itself as an "Assertion Failure" caused by a low memory condition and seems to come from the game application rather than from the kernel. On the other hand, this might also be the Xbox variant of a bluescreen, I do not know. And, honestly, I do not care either...
Posted by guenter at January 6, 2005 10:12 PM