Windows 98 is Plug and … Whoa? (opens in new tab)

April 20, 1998 During the COMDEX Spring ’98 and Windows World shows in Chicago, a public demonstration of the soon-to-be released Windows 98 goes awry when Bill Gates’ assistant causes the operating system to crash after plugging in a scanner. Instead of showing the plug-and-play capabilities they were trying to demonstrate, a “Blue Screen of… Windows 98 is Plug and … Whoa? is original content of This Day in Tech History.