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Windows 98 famous bluescreen at COMDEX 1998
During a demonstration of a beta version of Windows 98 by Microsoft s Bill Gates at COMDEX on April 20 1998 a SE incident occurred in public. The computer crashed with a stop error when his assistant (Chris Capossela currently Microsoft s Corporate VP in the Information Working business unit) connected a scanner to demonstrate Windows 98 s support for Plug and Play devices. This brought applause from the crowd and Gates replied after a pause: "That must be why we re not shipping Windows 98 yet".
