Bill Gates _never_ does demonstrations during his keynote presentations. Instead he walks off stage and lets some product manager do the honours.

The main reason for this is a barrage of demo crashes that have been haunting the Microsoft chairman.

At the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Gates broke with the "no demo" rule and tempted faith with disastrous results. The video below shows one of the failed demos.

26 Jul 2006

It doesn’t show the most embarrassing part of the keynote however, when an Xbox demo crashes and shows the ever embarrassing blue screen of death.

In a third demo blunder, the MSN Remote service lost its internet connection.

Tags: CES, bill gates, demo gods, blunder, blue screen