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Longhorn: Fewer BSODs, More RSODs

Posted by timothy on from the more-colors-still-available dept.

Jan Theofel writes "Windows Loghorn will present you less BSOD. Joi Ito reports that Windows Longorn will get additional ROSD (red screen of death) for 'really bad errors.' So you will get less BSOD but some new RSOD. You can find a ROSD screenshot in a virtual machine in his weblog entry."

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  1. New Feature by guaigean · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's always nice to see Microsoft adding new "features". Now they can tout Longhorn's decreased BSOD occurrences. Although I'd think they'd wanna avoid red screens as they are angry colors.

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    1. Re:New Feature by kertong · · Score: 5, Funny

      They also fail to mention the 3rd kind of failiure: the purple screen of death. Happens when longhorn bsods and rsods at the same time. psod is part of microsoft's new "quantum crash" technology, which is another added feature to longhorn.

      I can't wait to upgrade!

    2. Re:New Feature by ebuck · · Score: 5, Funny

      After which, Blarney, the animated Dinosaur will come popping up on your screen, trying to assist you in useful, cheerful ways.

      Blarney:

      Ohhh...
      Your computer crashed...
      But don't be sad....
      Be HAPPY!

      BSOD, BSOD,
      it's like getting a typing break for free!
      With a song and a dance, it will all go away.
      But it'll be back another day.

      User: They must relax gun laws for justifiable computer shootings.

    3. Re:New Feature by turbidostato · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, not exactly.

      It is a new technology specially developed for datacentres: you either predict which moment any computer gonna crash, or you can point a box and predict that one will crash, but you can't predict at the same time which computer and when.

      I think they call it "Ballmer's Uncertainty Principle", or something like that.

  2. Orange and Yellow? by sgeye · · Score: 5, Funny

    So where are the yellow and orange? Looks like MS has been taking advice from Tom Ridge.

  3. Page already Slashdotted... by Ninwa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dont forget NetworkMirror :)

    http://www.networkmirror.com/adYJGbG8ajC3f55y/joi. ito.com/archives/2005/05/07/bsod_upgrades_to_rsod_ in_longhorn.html

  4. wtf is a really bad error? by aendeuryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    What exactly is a really bad error? I mean, a bad error versus a really bad error? That warrants a color change, anyways?

    Frankly, I think customers ought to get rsod's for actually buying the damn product. That seems like a really bad error to me.

  5. Red-shifting by coma_bug · · Score: 5, Funny

    Longhorn is red-shifting... the release date must be receeding!

    1. Re:Red-shifting by dj245 · · Score: 5, Funny
      After the launch of Longhorn, Microsoft will announce their new color coding system of screens of death, including:

      Red: For extreme specific errors. An error has in fact already happened.
      Orange: For nonspecific systemwide errors, signifying imminent error.
      Yellow: An elevated error status, it is suspected that an error could occurr at any time
      Blue: The standard error message for vague and undescriptive errors of no substance
      Green: No error at this time, but remain on watch for errors.

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    2. Re:Red-shifting by CptnSbaitso · · Score: 5, Funny

      (continued from previous post) Microsoft officials expressed great satisfaction regarding their recent work on the new coloring system. "We believe that this system will help keep all users aware of the errorist threat."

  6. The next thing they need to do by FunkyRat · · Score: 5, Funny

    is add a Green Screen of Death. Then they'll be able to add together death colors to get much needed functionality for TrueColor Screens of Death.

  7. Re:I see BSOD's a lot. by blincoln · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are seeing BSODs almost daily, you either have faulty hardware or some seriously buggy drivers. Honestly folks, XP, and even 2000, BSOD very rarely.

    Exactly. I have never seen my XP machine at home BSOD, even when the video card was failing to the point that it was adding random horizontal lines across the display.

    At work, I saw 2000 BSOD on several servers when we applied an MS hotfix that conflicted with some sort of secret kernel patch they'd given us a few years previously for those same machines.

    I saw 2k bluescreen one other time, when a workstation had a zip drive and the user installed drivers for it from 1997 or so.

    Other than that, the only time I've seen it happen is if I make an OS image on one machine and then try and use it on another with different hardware. That's still stupid, but at least I know how to avoid it.

    This is in an environment with close to 1000 Windows servers and about 25,000 Windows workstations.

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  8. Re:BSOD by Geek+of+Tech · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't worry sir, I expect you'll finally get your computer plugged in any day now.

    In all seriousness though, XP isn't nearly as prone to BSODs ( or any other color :P ) , as 9x was. I'd still prefer my Debian or Gentoo though.

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  9. Patent #7,554,674 by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny
    Multiple SOD colours.

    That's innovation for you!

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  10. Re:BSOD by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember reading about the press conference where the Xbox was being hyped up.

    The MS guy said "There will be no blue screen of death on the xbox"

    I wish I'd been there, I'd have stuck my hand up and asked "What color will it be instead?"

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  11. RSOD? by purple_cobra · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it related to this:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/rsod/

  12. Rabbit hole by MisterSquid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why, oh why, didn't I take the blue screen?

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  13. Re:BSOD by Myen · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it restarts the machine.

    (If it could just restart explorer, that means it's recoverable and in user-space. I.e., not a BSoD, which happens in kernel-space. After all, explorer is just a shell.)

    And yes the restarting is a pain, since then you have no idea what just happened. Even worse is when it happens on boot - yay restart loop. AFAICT, checking the event log does not give all the information available in the BSoD.

  14. Changing the Color by freakmn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, it isn't in the registry, it's in system.ini. I haven't been able to verify whether this works, as the computer I'm on hasn't had a BSOD since I got it. I take good care of it.

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