Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo(theregister.co.uk) |
Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo(theregister.co.uk) |
It's not finished. It will break. You have a backup device (or two) ready when you present it in front of a crowd.
Apple does it (I remember keynotes where they had to switch to their backup Mac), Microsoft does it, everyone does it.
Now that sounds good! What would be even better, is if you build the whole thing on web-standards ;-)
That's not luck. I would think that a backup is almost always a must for any presentation.
Doesn't Linux already do this? Or does it not count, as it is only a kernel?
Approval of the magnitude of this claim is up to the reader.
I find the propensity to lie disturbing.
The wording you used makes it sound like they make buggy software on purpose, which makes no sense.
Actually, they do. Microsoft could spend more time and resources debugging it, or limit the number of use cases it addresses, make it simpler, support less hardware...
Obviously, they chose more functionality for the end user, a broader selection of supported hardware and shorter time to market. That comes with a price.
It's always a compromise. "Done is better than perfect"
And, to be fair, it could also be a hardware problem. You know, hardware has bugs too.
Oh wait, almost all software crashes.
When you can't or don't make your demo run smoothly during a high visibility presentation, it makes you look careless, either in the development of your product or of your demo. In either case, it reeks of incompetence. This might not be a justified impression (accidents happen), but that's how life is.
I think what Microsoft is getting at is, OSX and Ubuntu don't run the same code on their mobile devices. Windows 8 will. It's marketing, and NetBSD doesn't even cross their mind.
Really, it's marketing. Not truth.
Of course, by that logic, since the same company that made my macbook did the hardware and the software, I'd expect it to be much more stable than my windows boxes, but sadly it is not.
What Apple (Jobs, really) did was always rehearse every keynote to exhaustion (his and everyone else's), until everything is absolutely perfect. Not everyone is as perfectionist as Jobs was.
I had IIS blue-screen on me in front of a full audience (yes, I once worked for the evil empire). And I did rehearse the damn thing a good couple times.
Apple controls the hardware, the software, and the user. This makes it a lot easier to appear bug-free.
I feel that it's almost the same principle - things may crash here and there but it's "no big deal" to most people.
Don't do that. Or script out the demo really carefully.
PR exists to make the products look good.
Other Apple keynote bloopers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCZgqoQSGu4
Software is buggy sometimes, that's just life, and Apple is not immune to it. The best a company can do is have a backup system that they can quickly switch to so they can continue the demo.
Microsoft isn't done they have until October minus 1 month for manufacturing to go.