Bill Gates presentation goes wrong From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death#Windows_3.×.2C_95.2C_98.2C_and_ME "During a demonstration of a beta version of Windows 98 by Microsoft's Bill Gates, at COMDEX on April 20, 1998, a BSOD incident occurred in public. The computer crashed with a blue screen when his assistant (Chris Capossela, currently Microsoft's Chief Marketing Officer) connected a scanner to demonstrate Windows 98's support for Plug and Play devices.