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from the beat-this dept.
Via El Reg, Richard Chirgwin asks if anyone has seen a dramatic failure of Microsoft's OS. One assumes that he is referring to very public instances.
In Topper style, he starts off with a real beauty[1] that was spotted in Thailand.
In the comments, cornz 1 mentions seeing every screen at Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam) BSoD'd; Shadow Systems says he had to go to the other side of town when his branch bank's ATM BSoD'd; Robert Helpmann wasn't thrilled when the hotel elevator that was to take him up 20something storeys was showing a BSoD; James 51 also notes that Blue Screens are not a thing of the past, as his wife's Windows 10 update BSoD'd.
[1] If you have Facebook blocked, I have saved you the trip to Blake Sibbit's Facebook page.
Hat tips to TechWorm (though I wish you wouldn't put parts of your content behind scripts) and to Archive.is (which will run scripts for you on their machines).
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:47PM
Under Windows 95/98/ME the errors reported by BSODs were not always truly fatal, and they would often let you attempt to continue... usually with bad results.
Yeah, I think that was a deliberate trick to get you to expose more data to file corruption.