No more lines of coded error messages — just a clean frowny face and a line that regular people can actually understand: Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart.
It’s so simple and uncluttered, it’s almost Apple-like.
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(Sigh,) It’s interesting that Microsoft occasionally bumps blindly into the design sense that companies like Apple exhibit. Ironic that it’s on a fatal error message. Of course, this may be one of the screens that their users will see most frequently, so it’s good to have it be well-designed and fun.
I would say that I haven’t seen a blue screen for years, but that would just be stupid. I’d simply be inviting one.
So I won’t say that.
Kevin, you are clearly a stuck up Mac user.
I have been using my PC for 4 years now and haven’t had a single blue screen. Saying it “may be one of the screens that their users will see most frequently” is just foolish and uninformed.
@JStall91 –
I used PCs for about 20 years before switching to Mac about two years ago. I was being facetious, but only a bit. My crashes-per-user-year were maybe 100x higher with Windows than with OSX? (I had about 2 per week on average with countless versions of Windows – 3.0, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, CE, Vista… ) Since switching to OSX a couple years ago I’ve had… one crash? maybe two?
I might be “wrong” but I’m certainly not “uninformed.” I’ve got thousands of hours of firsthand experience.
Ironically, the single action that reduced the number of crashes the most for me was about two years before I switched – I decided to remove all anti-virus, spam-blocking, and other “utilities” from my PC. My machine was immensely faster, crashes dropped dramatically, and I never had a single problem with viruses… (I don’t recommend this, just stating my experience – your mileage may vary – offer void in all states) 🙂
It reminds me very much of the “frowny face” that first-generation Macintoshes used to exhibit. Ironic, indeed.
As long as I’m being snarky… the definition of an embedded system is one where you never have to code up a blue screen like the one above. It simply doesn’t happen.