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BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beacuse-its-august dept.

Whiteox writes "A BSOD was projected onto the roof of the National Stadium during the grand finale to the four-hour spectacular at the Olympics. Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing chose to go with XP instead of Vista because of the complexity of the IT functions at the Games. His comment on Vista? 'If it's not stable, it could have some problems,' he said. Evidently Bill Gates attended the opening ceremony, so he must have witnessed it."

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  1. Re:The article is incorrect by gparent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linux isn't advanced technology either. Troll.

  2. Re:well by ebonum · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Awwwwwww, one of the few symbols that all of humanity can understand and relate to. This is an inspired and deeply symbolic part of the opening ceremony that truly captures the trials and struggles we all face.

  3. Re:well by snl2587 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not Microsoft's problem...Microsoft's mistake. Or, more likely, its clever ploy. Since the filesystem is locked down to a Microsoft operating system in the event of an improper shutdown, NTFS becomes a terrible system to work with when using Linux. If they actually were encouraging interoperability as they like to claim they are, then this wouldn't even be an issue. But they don't release anything to help with the chkdsk issue, and so this persists.

    It is Linux's problem, but Microsoft's fault. As usual.