{"id":14098,"date":"2011-09-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"windows-8-gets-a-new-bsod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14098-windows-8-gets-a-new-bsod","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 gets a new BSOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who&rsquo;s ever owned a PC has seen it. Or rather, has experienced it. That anger bubbling up as you stare at its useless blue light, reading an error you don&rsquo;t understand and trying to resist the urge to punch your screen (the most tragic and expensive case of shooting the messenger).<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m talking, of course, about the BSOD, or Blue Screen of Death. The hallmark image of a computer having a boo-boo, it&rsquo;s ugly, annoying, and mostly not very helpful, as the error message usually disappears before you have time to figure out what the hell it is.<\/p>\n<p>With Windows 8, however, Microsoft plans on making this famous screen slightly less confusing for consumers. The screen will not feature an enormous sadface, followed by this message: &ldquo;Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn&#8217;t handle, and now it needs to restart. You can search for the error online: (error).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>You have to appreciate them acknowledging they can&rsquo;t stop your PC from crashing, instead opting to give you the consolation prize of an emoticon and advice which essentially reads &ldquo;google it&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t help feeling a certain measure of dread that this well-intentioned screen may walk the same road as &ldquo;Clippie&rdquo;, the Microsoft Office &ldquo;helper&rdquo; which could almost certainly be linked to a number of homicides.<\/p>\n<p>When your computer is having an aneurysm, the last thing you want to stare at is an obnoxious emoticon. Personally, I think a facepalm would have been better. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new image below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/win_8_bsod_222639770.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of an era<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}