Poor demo skills. You could easily switch to slides for a moment while you do what you have to do and whilst some in the audience might notice it would certainly be more professional to keep the emphasis on the main message which doesn't appear to be about demoing Edge anyway. It would also make for a less embarrassing video to put on the web.
Microsoft employee installs Chrome mid-presentation because Edge keeps crashing
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#12The fun thing is that this was already a month old presentation by the time this was posted.
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#13Poor demo skills. You could easily switch to slides for a moment while you do what you have to do and whilst some in the audience might notice it would certainly be more professional to keep the emphasis on the main message which doesn't appear to be about demoing Edge anyway. It would also make for a less embarrassing video to put on the web.
He made a sympathetic move in a stressful situation and the audience got a few giggles out of it, come on.
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#14Poor demo skills. You could easily switch to slides for a moment while you do what you have to do and whilst some in the audience might notice it would certainly be more professional to keep the emphasis on the main message which doesn't appear to be about demoing Edge anyway. It would also make for a less embarrassing video to put on the web.
He made a sympathetic move in a stressful situation and the audience got a few giggles out of it, come on.
Have you any training or experience in demo skills? I worked in presales for several years. What I am describing is standard stuff for handling this type of situation. Downvotes for literally describing the way that you are taught on a demo training course to handle this exact type of situation, wow HN so smart.
Edit: also anyone demonstrating software that values their career should have backup screenshots and video. I would probably have gone straight to video at that point. Audience barely notice and it's generally only a salty few that will quibble about it not being live, and I expect a video would communicate the message perfectly well.
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#16Poor demo skills. You could easily switch to slides for a moment while you do what you have to do and whilst some in the audience might notice it would certainly be more professional to keep the emphasis on the main message which doesn't appear to be about demoing Edge anyway. It would also make for a less embarrassing video to put on the web.
Have you ever been forced to use a company internal product and it sucked. And you told them soo- and they ignored it. Because stroking there egos is more important then your minor sales job.
And then you get your hands on the loudest of all amplifiers, and you get the chance for the biggest i told you so in history.
Sometimes opening the wound and drain the pus, is the cure.
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#17Poor demo skills. You could easily switch to slides for a moment while you do what you have to do and whilst some in the audience might notice it would certainly be more professional to keep the emphasis on the main message which doesn't appear to be about demoing Edge anyway. It would also make for a less embarrassing video to put on the web.
Have you ever been forced to use a company internal product and it sucked. And you told them soo- and they ignored it. Because stroking there egos is more important then your minor sales job. And then you get your hands on the loudest of all amplifiers, and you get the chance for the biggest i told you so in history. Sometimes opening the wound and drain the pus, is the cure.
I very much doubt this is the case.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
He made a sympathetic move in a stressful situation and the audience got a few giggles out of it, come on.
Have you any training or experience in demo skills? I worked in presales for several years. What I am describing is standard stuff for handling this type of situation. Downvotes for literally describing the way that you are taught on a demo training course to handle this exact type of situation, wow HN so smart. Edit: also anyone demonstrating software that values their career should have backup screenshots and video…
As a customer I would prefer a live demo. Usually a video demo, unless it has to be video (time-lapse etc) will not get my attention and I will ignore it. No way I'm buying something without a live demo.
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#19MS authentication still took longer than installing chrome, lol. Log in with no password, come to some weird state where you never know what to choose, log in again with password, wait for 2-factor, and bingo!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you any training or experience in demo skills? I worked in presales for several years. What I am describing is standard stuff for handling this type of situation. Downvotes for literally describing the way that you are taught on a demo training course to handle this exact type of situation, wow HN so smart. Edit: also anyone demonstrating software that values their career should have backup screenshots and video…
As a customer I would prefer a live demo. Usually a video demo, unless it has to be video (time-lapse etc) will not get my attention and I will ignore it. No way I'm buying something without a live demo.
You would buy something purely on the strength of a demo? If so I hate to break it to you but there's often a lot of smoke and mirrors behind live demos, indeed if the demo jock is good enough you might not even know you are watching a video. In my experience most reasonable audiences are aware of Murphy's law and forgiving of it. My original point was that according to the training I received there are better ways to handle this type of situation. I don't think you've refuted that point.