Comments on: Yahoo's CES demo: Mission impossible

Stars Tom Cruise, Ellen DeGeneres help Internet search company through technical demo problems at Consumer Electronics Show.
Photo: Tom Cruise to the rescue

Seems to need Linux

And why are all these new media companies not using Linux for IPTV platforms? Linux scales/shrinks better - the same SW could run on a mainframe, the desktop, and a handheld/cellular...

Yahoo! wake up - don't do it!

[Hep Cat]

"And we know whose software this runs on,"

If it's so problematic on Windows, why don't they make it available
on other, equally-capable platforms?

What an ass - for bringing bat-crazy Cruise on stage and for
simultaneously ticking off Windows, Mac and Linux users.

[patmfitz]

Glib

Tom Cruise knows the history of Windows, you don't.

Don't be glib.

[Jamie314]

Thats right, blame the OS for your buggy software...

What business does Yahoo's chap have blaming Windows for shortcomings in his own software/service?

It seems everything is blamed on the software "it runs on", and not the program itself. This would have happened just the same if it was running on Mac or Linux instead, but the question is.. would he have blamed the OS then?

[Geir Werner Hagen]

OS

Thing is ; you don´t know if it was the OS or the software... so the
odds are high that it was windoze !

[nicmart]

And yet Yahoo persists in spurning the Mac OS

I guess we all know who helps to sustain Microsoft's Rube Goldberg
OS. The new product won't work on a Mac, just like many other
Yahoo media products.

Sweet justice.

"the Internet connection failed"

While blaming Windows is generally a safe bet and lots of fun,
the article clearly states that "the Internet connection failed."
So, it wasn't Windows and it wasn't Yahoo's software. Sorry to
spoil the party.