Who needs Windows and Gates already?

Bill Gates improves the already top notch reputation of reliability of Microsoft's products during a keynote speech at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show:

[...] while promoting what he calls the "digital lifestyle," Gates showed how vulnerable all consumers even the world's richest man are to hardware and software bugs.

During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn't respond to Gates' pushing of the remote control.

Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded "blue screen of death" and warned, "out of system memory."

The errors which came during what's usually an ode to Microsoft's dominance of the software industry and its increasing control of consumer electronics prompted the celebrity host, NBC comedian Conan O'Brien, to quip, "Who's in charge of Microsoft, anyway?"

Gates, who was sitting next to O'Brien on a set staged to look like NBC's Late Night set, smiled dryly and continued with his discussion.

Give Bill a seat in your den and, you too, enjoy the blue screen of death on your TV.