Windows 8 Has a Slightly Friendlier Blue Screen of Death

So is this suppose to make people less mad when they get one? lol

Actually it's:

Microsoft Windows has given your PC a problem that it couldn't handle, and now it needs to restart.

The sad face emoticon should be the "I lied guy" meme instead.

I got a nice laugh out of it when I saw it yesterday. Randomly happened as I was changing a few system settings.

LoL

Was that so hard?

ROFL, I love this one! I think I'm gonna yoink it for a background!

Would Microsoft need a supercomputer to actually tell users what actually happened?

More like the "troll face" meme.

Where's the debug information?

Wow, now there is no technical information at all, that's certainly going to help....

But they have added a giant and lame looking emoticon, and they have also contracted 'It will' into "It'll", that really is much friendlier... Now that's progress! Wrong.

The old BSoD was far better, this is just more dumb-down for the mainstream.... More reason to not 'upgrade' to Win8. Still on XP here, and it's still getting the job done just fine.

I would guess a mini-dump is still created that contains the debug info.

does anyone remember that there was a news on toms that the BlueSOD will be Black in color?

Doesn't make a BSOD any less frustrating IMO. May be if they keep a counter on BSOD and for every BSOD, you earn point where you can use them to trade for MS product (may be an xbox)?

This reminds me of the YouTube frown face when a video is not available anymore, does anyone have a screen shot of this, I wonder if YT will sue MS because they look a lot alike.

This is awesome, for some reason I just started laughing when I saw this. When it happens, it should also have a sound thats, "wah wah"

When you "kill a page" in chrome, you also got a sad face. I've seen that in many websites. I don't think apple has claimed the patent for that yet.

How about this for the emocon:

Its in english and its not finished.

I can't remember the last time I saw a BSOD. It has probably been at least a year or maybe two.

/Windows 7

D'awww That smiley is so cute!

I think I'll purposefully destabilize my system in order to get a BSOD. I haven't got one that was not related to loose SATA cables or PCI ports for more than 3 years now.

Actually, yes. I've noticed, myself, that if my PC SUDDENLY gets a BSOD, it's a real shocker: 1) it's RARE 2) it's SUDDEN 3) it's THREATENING 4) it indicates that something is VERY WRONG. This, however, will be relaxed by taking the number 3 out of the game I wonder if there will be a demo button for it... I want one.

Though, I find the lack of the technical info disturbing. They better still create a memory dump!

+1! Actually, I wish we could choose the BSOD background...

The old one wasn't bad, they just should have labeled things better and neater. And putting the datestamp in hex is just cryptic. Not the general troubleshooting commentary, but rather a short description of what each technical item actually is. I actually thing the new one is worse if this is it as it lacks even more information in the name of dumbing down the end user.

Never had a BSOD since Vista and I'm now running 7.

Notice the finer print that we can't read (not that it's so small, just a not-so-great pic of a screen shot) - that has the technical information.

I think they need to use Mr. Yuk for this.

Because a frowny face makes losing your data all that much more easy to swallow lol.

Some thing different for this operating system at least.

I haven't had a BSOD anywhere but work since win 98.

add me to that list i never had any issues with vista or 7

Wait.. so we won't get fancy codes that specify what the problem is anymore? We just get a general issue listed? FAIL.

I would assume this is because people end up doing more damage when they don't know what to do other than use google to "fix" the problem.

MS has put alot of effort into crash dumps over the years, so you should at least have a mini-dump to look at.