It's still death, but it's a little nicer.
Those blue screens of death (BSoD) are never a good thing in Windows. It makes pros cringe and casual computer users cry out for help.
Unfortunately, system crashes are a part of any computer platform, but Microsoft is making it a little less cryptic and scary. This is what the BSoD looks like in the developer preview of Windows 8 released yesterday:
So it's still blue and it doesn't change the fact that the system needs to restart after a crash, but at least it's not a confusing mess of letters and numbers.
Microsoft Windows has given your PC a problem that it couldn't handle, and now it needs to restart.
More like the "troll face" meme.
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.
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.
Its in english and its not finished.
/Windows 7
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
Though, I find the lack of the technical info disturbing. They better still create a memory dump!