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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> When good demos go (very, very) bad
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| At Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday, Vista
>| product manager Shanen Boettcher set out to show just how easy to use
>| the speech recognition technology built into upcoming Windows Vista
>| software will be. Like, for example, dictating aloud a simple,
>| heartfelt letter to mom, and having one's voice automatically
>| transcribed into a computer.
>|
>| The result was a disaster.
> `----
>
> http://blogs.reuters.com/2006/07/28/when-good-demos-go-very-very-bad/
>
> I think they meant to say a "Vistaster", much like the rest of the
> development (or lack thereof... mere advancements at best).
>
> Here is the classic: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RgriTO8UHvs
>
> ( BSoD in Windows 98 demo )
>
<quote>
Eleven years after Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in his 1995
book /The Road Ahead/ predicted humans would one day talk to
their computers rather than have to type, the future appeared
to be at hand.
</quote>
Err, so he predicted what he'd see on Star Trek in the 1970s, or what
Arthur Clarke wrote for Space Odyssey? What a fantastic visionary Bill
Gates is, he even innovated his book from others...
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