The day Windows 98 crashed live — and Bill Gates built a secret lab to make sure it never happened again

Microsoft's Production Studios facility features a unique room designed to test equipment before recording promotional videos and presentations.
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Storied Windows dev reminisces about Microsoft's first hardware product 45 years ago — the Z-80 SoftCard was an Apple II add-in card

Raymond Chen has shared some insight into the development of Microsoft’s first hardware product, the Z-80 SoftCard, from 1980 ...

Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never hap…

The moment, captured above, was from Gates' keynote at the then-major COMDEX trade show a few months before Windows 98's ...