Judging from this video, the Windows 7 launch in Japan was certainly more, shall we say, flamboyant then the launch here in the US. But the really amusing part is the fact that the host couldn’t get the touchscreen to work.
The video is strangely disturbing, and I’m not sure exactly who the costumed heroes are (Ballmer? Gates?) but that’s not the really funny part. You’d think that someone being on stage demo’ing a technology would have looked at the thing first. Had he done that, he would have learned that using your fingernail doesn’t work, and not looked like an chump.
To be fair, crashes happen during demos. It happens to everyone, you’re showing off your shiny new thing and oops, there it goes. This was user error and shouldn’t be blamed on Win7.
He was so bad I can’t but help to wonder if someone didn’t pay him to sabotage the presentation!
How retarded can you be?
“nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope….”
[Hits button WITH FINGER]
“Ah, that worked. Lets try it again now…”
“nope, nope, nope…”
Get a clue dude. It worked when you touched it with your finger but it doesn’t with your finger nail. You even demonstrated that! You’d think he would at the very least try something other than swiping his finger nail across the screen repeatedly.
Also, that was incredibly weird.
did u actually watch the video?? it clearly showed that it worked with his fingernail, and the next time he tries to do it again it failed.
if anything i would blame the screen itself, rather than the user.
This post sort of casually meanders to the fact that this particular ‘Windows 7 touchscreen failure’ was user error. I’m betting there are statistics that show where the typical blog reader stops reading the article – and those readers probably think they got the gist after the first paragraph.
What do you think, Dave? Is this post a little guilty of misrepresentation?
Dave… uhm… i find it odd that you don’t know Ultraman.
Im guessing it also depends on the screen and hes expecting one like the iphone, when its probably more pressure sensitive like the nokia 5800
Ok so far the Japanese are 0 – 2 with touch screens. Anyone else seeing a pattern forming.
(no its not with windows 7)
Doesn’t help that the man demoing is the top chief of Microsoft Japan.