Olympic size “Blue Screen of Death”
You must’ve encountered the “blue screen of death” on your computers … 15″ to 21″ monitors etc but this time, it hit big! The opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympic games was - by all accounts - quite spectacular*. Especially the bit where Chinese gymnast Li Ning apparently jogged towards the torch despite being suspended more than 70 metres aloft.
The picture to the right shows him. It also shows an enormous Blue Scree of Death, a familiar site to Quake gamers. More interestingly, it shows that BSOD running - or not running - on Windows XP rather than the more up-to-date Vista operating system.
According to Lenovo chairman, Yang Yuanqing, quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald, “If it’s not stable, it could have some problems”.
We wonder how ex-Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates - who was watching from the stands - felt about the whole thing.
Yeah I was there, and I felt totally embarassed about the whole thing.