{"id":14927,"date":"2019-04-20T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/windows-98-is-plug-and-whoa-3\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T23:16:10","slug":"windows-98-is-plug-and-whoa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/windows-98-is-plug-and-whoa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 98 is Plug and \u2026 Whoa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1296\" title=\"Windows 98 BSOD\" alt=\"Windows 98 BSOD\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ee4d0__win98bsod.jpeg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/>April 20, 1998<\/p>\n<p>During the COMDEX Spring &#8217;98 and Windows World shows in Chicago, a public demonstration of the soon-to-be released Windows 98 goes awry when Bill Gates&#8217; assistant causes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=73wMnU7xbwE\" target=\"_blank\">the operating system to crash after plugging in a scanner<\/a>. Instead of showing the plug-and-play capabilities they were trying to demonstrate, a &#8220;Blue Screen of Death&#8221; is visible by the entire audience which immediately erupts in laughter. After several seconds, Bill Gates famously responded, &#8220;That must be why we&#8217;re not shipping Windows 98 yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the assistant,\u00a0Chris Capossela, has moved up the executive ranks at Microsoft, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/microsoft\/2011\/04\/06\/chris-capossela-is-microsofts-new-chief-marketing-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently being promoted<\/a> to the position of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/exec\/capossela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senior Vice President, Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group<\/a>. For Microsoft&#8217;s sake, hopefully he&#8217;ll present a much better marketing image then he did that fateful day!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/20\/windows-98-is-plug-and-whoa\/\">Windows 98 is Plug and &#8230; Whoa?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/20\/windows-98-is-plug-and-whoa\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 1998 During the COMDEX Spring &#8217;98 and Windows World shows in Chicago, a public demonstration of the soon-to-be released Windows 98 goes awry when Bill Gates&#8217; assistant causes the operating system to crash after plugging in a scanner. Instead of showing the plug-and-play capabilities they were trying to demonstrate, a &#8220;Blue Screen of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1132,3432,889],"class_list":["post-14927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-plug","tag-whoa","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}