Convergence 2012 You've got to hand it to Kirill Tatarinov, the head of Microsoft's ERP division. The Russian Rocket was cool as a cucumber on Monday when a demo of the Windows 8 Metro UI running on a touch-screen tablet crashed and burned during the opening keynote of Convergence 2012.
Microsoft is indeed making big, bold bets with the upcoming release of Windows 8, which Microsoft touts as the first operating system to run across multiple devices – from phones to tablets to "slates" to e-readers to laptops to rich clients to television boxes. And Microsoft is also planning to imbue its ERP and CRM applications with Windows 8's Metro UI, although that feature is not expected to be available until 2013.
The keynopte audience got a sneak peak of the new Metro UI being used to access a Dynamics ERP system at yesterday's Houston, Texas, soirée. But the demo didn't quite go as planned.
The demo was led by Fred Studer, general manager of Microsoft's ERP product management group. Things were going so smoothly, as Studer effortlessly navigated through ERP screens by swiping his finger across the tablet's screen. Compared to those nasty text-only interfaces that many associate with ERP systems of old, working on a Microsoft ERP system from a tablet actually looks like fun – in an Angry Birds kind of way.
When Studer handed the tablet over to Tatarinov to let him submit a change to the system, the tablet suddenly froze. The two Microsoft employees frantically started pushing different buttons to get it unstuck, but nothing seemed to work. Luckily, there was a second tablet available on stage that was working, so the changes for the hypothetical app were successfully written to the pretend database, and all was well.
Read more : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/19/microsoft_demo_trouble/
