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lol. Typical Microsoft. In the middle of the presentation the "surface" stops working. The the guy swaps it with another to continue the show. Its around minute 14. Fail.

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To be fare apple has its own share on 'fail' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsKKQNZG3rE

Isn't that sort of hiccup par for the course at these sorts of events? I assume the best you can hope for is to handle them gracefully when they arise.

I was about to say. Stuff like this happens to the best of us. Look at any Apple press event and you'll see several machines lined up - and in fact, Jobs has had his hiccups as well during keynotes.

If this is regarded as a "fail", than the OP clearly has never held any serious presentation that involved hardware and software.

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