Confusing Cortana
Live presentations are tricky business. No matter how much planning and practice goes into these things, there's no guarantee that something won't go wrong. Hey, it happens, and for Microsoft, it's not ultra rare. The latest incident involves Microsoft boss Satya Nadella trying (unsuccessfully) to interact with Cortana during a live presentation.
Nadella was giving a keynote speech at Salesforce's Dreamforce 2015 conference in San Francisco. He talked about artificial intelligence and Cortana's ability to provide analytics, but when he tried to demonstrate this functionality, Cortana acted like it was her first rodeo.
"Show me my most at-risk opportunities," Nadella said. Instead of doing that, Cortana initiated a Bing search for "show me to buy milk at this opportunity." Nadella gave it another two tries before throwing in the towel and apologizing to the crowd. Have a look:
Other than a brief moment of awkward silence, Nadella kept his composure while backstage employees came to the rescue. As they say, the show must go on, and it did.
This wasn't the first time a Microsoft demonstration didn't go exactly as planned and it probably won't be the last. Here's a look at some others:
Surface Presentation Fail
Voice Recognition Fail
BSOD Blooper with Bill Gates
Of course, it's not just Microsoft that suffers the occasional technology glitch during live demos. Here's a look at several Apple bloopers rolled into one:
Isn't technology fun?
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