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Windows Crashes During Olympic Ceremony

Posted by jhansonxi on · 5 comments
Tom's Guide; By Steve Seguin
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Microsoft Windows never lets us down when it comes to BSOD amusement and at the 2008 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies it struck again.

[Here is a link to the pic they mention - Scott]

With 70 million viewers watching, a record for non-U.S. Olympic Summer Games viewership, how many people do you think noticed the massive Blue Screen of Death during the Opening Ceremonies? It wasn’t easy to see it at first, all high up there, lost in the distraction of fireworks, light shows, and the thousands of performers, but it was there, taunting the world... taunting us all.

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Comments (5)

I missed it. I was watching a movie on our media machine, rather than be bored silly by the Olympic opening ceremony. Sometime it just pays to put yourself through that sort of torture.
Heh, it is a good pic. I make a point of photographing MS fails when I see them. Just yesterday I took a snappie of an ATM with something that has gone awry. There was a window on screen titled "Console Root" - le eek! Thankfully it's not my bank.
http://rivercoolcool.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D6F05428A2B8CB...

The original entry with pictures that the article links to. Ironically, hosted on MS Live Spaces....
I work with a guy who does audio editing for an all-news radio station, and he's running an ancient Dell with Windows 98. Major flashback ensued.

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