Microsoft Japan
Japan Probe has two vids of how live demonstrations of Windows 7 failed with grace on live Japanese TV.
First up is the evening news - the zooming stuff no work desu. Rather amusing - "It turns like this" and nothing happens.
Then its the morning news - they flip to a recording of Windows 7 working when the one in the studio fails.
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College Student
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Lol it froze. Nice to see that at least Microsoft is going ahead of Vista.
Otaku
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This time is going to be different... trust me!!! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjmVN7mAMwc
University's Slave
LOL. Yeah. Trouble is, they create new problems every time they fix old ones.
Mad scientist clone (my first account broke)
Combine that video with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzFUcDKC64E and the videos here and you get the picture :P
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For some reason, "the zooming stuff no work desu" cracked me up!!! I attribute it to being up at 2 in the morning.
Oh, and the videos were funny too!
Student
Haha, that is embarassing.. epic fail on national television
Admin
haha exactly, what more do we expect from Microsoft though, the company that had to create a blue screen of death as they knew it would fail a LOT haha
Freelance Illustrator
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Lol, who doesn't fail?
Medical School Student
at least my madobe nanami is cute <3<3<3
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wow I hope that's not make windows 7 fail in japan >_<
Well, Madobe Nanami makes up for it, to a certain extent. Though, I have to admit, her "Jya Jyaan"s and "Chi~n"s got annoying after a while, so I turned them off.
Studnet
lol epic fail. not once but twice.
from the looks of it it was the touch screen that fail as the were still about to use the mouse.
anyways what a great way to start promoting windows 7
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I read about this today on other blogs, and what I have to say is: Let's not jump to conclusions.
From what I saw, the only thing that isn't working there is the touchscreen feature.
See how the lady runs Google Earth from the keyboard.
Yes, it could be something with Windows 7, but it could as well be something with the touchscreen alone.
All in all though, Microsoft is well known for having extremely bugged OSs at launch...
Still, both XP and Vista works fine to me after the first service pack was released.
Currently running XP on desktop and Vista on lappie... no bugs, freezes or other problems like those so far.
Poet (not)
Windows 7 == Vista without most of the bugs & excess baggage.
Student
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It can be the screen but I hope something like this don't happen in my showcase
Engineer by weekdays, Hikki by weekends
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Microsoft scriptor/programmer Trolling?
Otaku
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They should put this video demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYY-g6ionzM
oh never mind is three years old.
Mad scientist clone (my first account broke)
That's actually kind of cool. I wonder how cool it really is when you play for hours though.
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Thats sad haha.
Though I believe its the touchscreen problem.
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Yup, methinks its more of a problem with the hardware, rather than the software.
Technical Account Manager
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Yay touch screen fail! Notice who makes those computers? It's Sony... Hmm... must be Sony plot to tarnish Microsoft's image!
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Oh so fail....XD
Tech Support/Semi-programmer XD
Most probably a touch screen fail. Either it was not supported or no drivers installed since Win 7 is still operational with a keyboard/mouse.
About that......
mmm cant blame the software all the time
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Obviously not Microsoft's fault, it must be the people who set it up wrong. =P
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Was it even a touch screen monitor? It's a Sony!
Student
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Sony and Microsoft collaboration?
Oh no
Engineer by weekdays, Hikki by weekends
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But then again i think its driver/config issue
As i've been using vista on a HP tablet tx2500z, and the whole touch panel works
research student
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Failing twice at the same point?
Maybe it really hates Fuji TV XD
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Eh. I wouldn't exactly pin this on Windows or Microsoft in particular.
Otaku ^^
So embarrassing on the touch screen feature from Win7 or the VAIO panel hardware are at fault??
d@@b
Student
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Fail much? It can be the screen or just window 7 that are not good enough to operate it. I tried Window 7 before and I must say it really have a lots of improvement from the previous OS.
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Do tell me if I missheard but it seemed as if they made some kind of joke with the TV-station being particular about disliking Win7 since it doesn´t work as it should there :p
I´d also like to say false drivers and thus fail. Mouse works just fine. Why they wanted to show of a touchscreen that large though is out of my mind. Show the system instead for focusing on some of the features.
I can´t wait for my copy of Win7 to get home so I can install it over this RC.
Student
Lol, Good job Microsoft.
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does anyone actually use touchscreens for desktop computing much? - a mouse and keyboard is fine too.
Freelancer, Student
Btw.: I just installed Windows 7 Os-tan xD The sounds are awesome. I also published it <a href="http://www.mediendesign-schwarz.de/">in my Blog</a> for Download. Please be gentle x'D. Don't crash it. ^_^"
Service desk support
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Not surprising really. The multitouch was always temperamental. There was a video of a microsoft demonstrator being unable to get the feature to work while demonstrating back when it was still RC. and that was on the BBC website!!!
Star Gazer
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I'm very happy with my Windows 7, but this must have been very embarrassing for Microsoft XD
Seem to work just fine and most of the problem was with the touch screen. I don't use a touch screen so it doesn't really matter to me.
Mechanical Engineering student
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That must have been very embarrassing! But I think the problem is in the touchscreen feature. In the second video, the lady was able to open a file with the mouse.
I'll wait a bit more before I upgrade to Win7. You know, to give Microsoft time to fix bugs and stuff x_x
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なんか、、、
哀しいですね。
Developer/Student
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MS is no stranger to bad demonstrations. Here is Bill Gates demonstrating Windows 98, when it suffers a BSOD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgriTO8UHvs
I've installed Win7 Pro on 3 of my machines, and none of them have had issues so far, but then again, none of them have touch screens either. Touch screens are a gimmick tech, give me spatial manipulation and mind interfaces please.
Student (University)
Touch screen systems are like newb techies trying to show off a system that isn't really worth using and not direct enough. A mouse is all you really need, and it's a hell of a lot more efficient.
I'll be upgrading my machine to Windows 7 soon enough, as I'm much more used to using Windows over Mac's OSX.
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ROFL, hahahahaha
Just have something to say...."What would u expect from microsoft??"
I guess i'll still have my XP OS for a little longer >.<
College Student (ICT Software Development)
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well, we can't expect Microsoft to provide a good OS before it implements a hundred updates. Touch screen... who really needs it?!
LMAO, epic fail. I think I'll continue to wait and see.
Comp. Eng. Student
GG. It's good to see they keep up the tradition of crashes throughout these versions.. XP
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I feel really bad about this guy
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Hehe. Poor guy...
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I feel sorry for the guy. Hope he wasn't fired or anything.
Computers and programs fail all the time. I blame the sunspot activity...
neet/single parasite
epic fail!
yeah i know, time to time my pc goes super slow or froze or something, makes me wanna throw it out of the window run it over and burn it XD
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Ouch...guess he didn't expected that....