Microsoft dug up 25 years ago: Gates crashed on the blue screen when he demonstrated Win98

CTOnews.com April 21 news, foreign technology media NeoWin once again turned to Microsoft 25 years ago, Gates demonstrated the Win98 system on April 20, 1998, the device had a blue screen crash.

The public demonstration took place at the annual COMDEX trade show in Chicago, where Microsoft co-founder and then CEO Bill Gates and his assistant Chris Cabosera (Chris Capossela) publicly demonstrated the Win98 system.

In order to demonstrate that the Win98 system supports plug and play, the Win98 system automatically blues the screen after the scanner is connected. This is the most famous blue screen incident in Microsoft's history, which caused the audience to laugh.

But Cabosera and Gates were not panicked. Instead, Gates calmly joked: "this must be the reason why we haven't launched Win98 yet."

CTOnews.com note: although the blue screen is not the first Win98 system, but this COMDEX keynote speech undoubtedly let more users know about the blue screen experience of Windows system.