Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- There were red faces around Microsoft Thursday after Chairman Bill Gates got the dreaded "blue screen of death" at the Consumer Electronics Show. For the seventh year, Gates gave the keynote address to the prestigious show in Las Vegas, this year in a comedy-laced talk-show format with NBC's late-night TV star Conan O'Brien, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Advertisement O'Brien joked he and Gates had been out on the Las Vegas Strip all night long the night before and said "Bill got so drunk he woke up with an Apple computer." But during a demonstration of a soon-to-be-released video game, the enormous display monitors lit up blue with the error message "Out of system memory," eliciting a gasp from O'Brien. "Who's in charge of Microsoft?" O'Brien asked, who then stared at Gates and said, "Oh." "Yup," Gates said. "That was a powerful yup," O'Brien said. "The yup heard around the industry."
