Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

You would think after one live demonstration went awry, Microsoft would be especially cautious about demoing Windows Vista Speech Recognition capabilities in front of a crowd. Not so. On January 30th, I attended a Microsoft Launch Day event in Philadelphia, PA where Technet presenter, Bryan Von Axelson, attempted to demo Vista’s Speech Recognition again! I wish soo bad I would’ve had a video camera along, it was soo funny. He couldn’t get it to do much more than open the start menu, and sometimes that wouldn’t even work. But the loudest applause came, when after Bryan spoke “Minesweeper” several times into the microphone, Mahjong Titans opened.