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Windows 95 BSODed on demonstration in face of Bill Gates. Did not make it any less successful.

• ladyanita22 6y ago
  Windows 98 in fact.
  • ollie87 6y ago
    USB stack error I seem to recall, can't remember if it was a scanner or a printer they plugged in.
• goto11 6y ago
  How do you know? It certainly did long term damage to the brand.
  • gowld 6y ago
    The demo didn't. A decade of crashes in the field did.
    • goto11 6y ago
      > The demo didn't How do you know? People still remember it 20 years later.
  • marcusjt 6y ago
    First impressions do count and the BSOD surely would have done at least short-term damage to the product & brand reputation.