Windows 8 Blue Screen of Death
With developer preview builds of Windows 8 out in the wild, I can now comment on how some of the interesting changes in the release.
Most people have met the wonderful “Blue Screen of Death”, it plagues college kids around the world, reminding you to save your term papers every twenty minutes. Only the super nerdy actually know what it was is for or even found it useful. (I worked in Windows and still have no clue!)
In the majority of cases you got to the blue screen because of a) faulty hardware, b) hardware drivers have resulted in a crash or c) corrupted or buggy software is trying to touch parts of the OS it shouldn’t be.
The New BSOD
Not only is the new error screen less techy, but it expresses the new ‘personality’ and tone you will find throughout Windows 8.
What I find the most interesting is the language used in the error message,
“ Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart.”
“It’ll restart in:”
Looks like Windows is trying to get some separation from their cheaply developed devices and hardware. Fingers crossed!
