At some point, Microsoft’s gotta stop doing live demos. They’re like Charlie Brown and the football with these things.
The latest oopsie, a live demo of voice recognition software that tanked in front of a bunch of financial analysts.
Reports USA Today: “Instead of typing, ‘Dear mom, as [presenter] Shanen Boettcher had instructed, the computer spurted out: ‘Dear aunt.’ “
That could have been much worse.
The story’s actually pretty funny. Click here to see what the software did when given the “delete” command. And you can see the video here.
ViaUSA Today
