Tuesday night, while John King was going all Minority Report on the big touchscreen electoral map, suddenly:

King just smoothly turned and talked to the camera while the thing rebooted. Looked like this has happened before more than once.

Full disclosure: I have a financial interest in Apple, a Microsoft competitor, obviously. But still. Reminded me of last year at the cricket world cup, when the stadium scoreboard decided that New Zealand batters 8 through 11 had scored a “floating point division by zero”:

Update: people who know more about this stuff than I do blame it on individual programs, not the Microsoft operating system. Fair enough. So the title of this post should be something more like “CNN Meets Software Written By Hired Professionals Writing Stuff That Is Supposed To Work With Microsoft, But Who, Despite Being Presumably Competent And Well-Paid Enough in Their Field To Be Hired by CNN and the International Cricket Council, Somehow Still Can’t Make the Stuff They Write For a Living in High-Profile Tasks For Near-Global Audiences Not Put Weird Things Up On the Screen, Which Microsoft’s Great Operating System Nonetheless Cannot Be Blamed For, Obviously.” I regret the error.