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Microsoft Tests New 'Green Screen of Death' On Latest Windows 10 Builds (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Windows 10 Insider builds will now feature Green Screen of Death (GSOD) instead of the classic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error page we have all become accustomed to. The change was teased on Twitter by Matthijs Hoekstra, Senior Program Manager for Windows Enterprise Developer Platform, and spotted by a user that goes by the nickname of Chris123NT. According to Hoekstra, only Windows 10 Insider builds will feature the green error screen, while stable Windows 10 versions will continue to use the classic blue-themed error page. Hoekstra didn't elaborate on the reasons behind the color change, but the color-coded error screens would allow Microsoft support staff to triage bugs and prioritize customers.
They turned it green.
That's some out of the box thinking right there.
I'd have thought they'd concentrate on fixing their own drivers they broke in anniversary but green? Good call!
In another 90 years, they'll have run out of the visible spectrum, and we'll get the Ultra-Violet Screen of Death.
Because god forbid they actually give us informative error messages. We might figure out how Windows works!
There was a registry tweak to change the color of the Screen of Death. I always liked setting it to the Fuschia Screen of Death. Though we did joke about the Chartreuse Screen of Death, so I guess Microsoft listened to that particular suggestion instead...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
MS has always been a collection of incompetent, arrogant morons, but this is getting ridiculous.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
There are stable versions of Windows 10? Oh, right, they mean versions where the spying on user activities and data works reliably.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Green screen? Like the video production technique? I welcome error screens that allow us to composite in Godzilla destroying our unsaved documents.
no more crashes for me. I hope rest of you yahoos with your working rods and cones enjoy your crashtastic computers.
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so this won't be good for people who are green color blind
Only if it also had red letters... Green and black worked quite well for many years.
Same as IE. Only the color changes.
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Microsoft is becoming Green! - nice PR move.
Right, it'll say "Something happened" with a frown emoji. The message will still be crystal clear even to dogs.
We don't care what color you paint the turd. Fix the security and privacy problems your system has, until you do this, color us unimpressed.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
> A screen that is displayed if memory corruption or a hardware error or kernel fault occurs is going to zip off to the registry to try to read its desired colour from a key somewhere? ...
> the MS engineers responsible need to be told to keep it simple, stupid.
If MS engineers were smart, most of us wouldn't ever seen a BSOD. QED they are not smart, and do stuff like putting this in the registry, a binary blob of everything.
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Back before Windows 3.1 (Yes, I was running windows then, in fact I was on the 3.1 beta) there were no GPFs, they WERE UAEs (unrecoverable application errors). The screen was green
BTW, there was actually a joke on the Beta forums, when one of the Devs said "I promise you will NEVER get another UAE, but that is because we renamed them GPFs"
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Just make 'em theme-able. Sell themed crash screens on the Windows store for 99 cents.
I think that's setting the bar pretty low for the term "stable".
It even says right there in the summary that the color changes will help helpdesk triage customers. When some non-technical user calls to complain they can more easily report "the screen is blue" or "the screen is green" than to relay a long string of error codes. So, yes, they should have thought about when a non-technical customer says "I'm blue-green colorblind!"
Who is the dipshit with the snarky un-thought through answer, exactly?
In terms of innovation, it still beats rounded corners
I've not seen one in many years. Still, haters gonna hate.
You'll figure that out when you try to read the log file from the disk.
Windows 7 was so awesome ... Well for Windows I guess and MS threw it away.
The bsod have a silly scan code WTF and no details. On 7/XP you see something like Nvidia.dll caused X etc. Great so we know whats caused it. Win 10 a silly scan code like I have a scanner on hand and a 0xo457ef7, ox05e. No more details!
At home I have to install the bloated windows SDK just for windbg.Exe. At work I am helpless! God I hate Win 10 in many ways. Fix it
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As article summary says, traditional BSOD will remain (though with less info than WinXP) on released builds, green on insider only. I don't know what the fuss is about
Green means go as go ahead and reboot testers
Those are the NSA-approved builds
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
First, my PC is quite stationary. The first thing I did when I stood up my PC was to chop off its legs, so it can't run into anything including problems. Second of all, if my PC has issues, why does Microsoft recommend that I restart? I strongly feel that it should be my computer that restarts to resolve problems
So, yes, they should have thought about when a non-technical customer says "I'm blue-green colorblind!"
Who is the dipshit with the snarky un-thought through answer, exactly?
You.
There is no blue-green colorblindess. It's either red-green or blue-yellow.
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Is nothing sacred!?
:( Something happened.
People affected by tritan color blindness confuse blue with green and yellow with violet.
Edge is definitely not the same as IE. I am still running into things that work in Edge and fail in IE. And a few the other way around, but not with regard to javascript or css support.
Think about it::
Choose your own custom Screen of Death color. They can add a setting under Personalization to make it match your Desktop (Or another check box to make it use an accent color).
And now.... * POOF * ... The BSOD becomes an upgrade. It's not that their software sucks or is crashing, they were actually adding another feature feature the whole time and they just now reached the final version..
Gosh, I guess they were thinking about us the whole time, huh?
I love when people speak shit with such conviction. It makes reading posts such as yours far more amusing then they deserve to be.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
God forbid they design a decent operating system that doesn't need a "screen of death" in the first place. No, why would anyone want that? The fact that there are still people using Windows in this day and age truly boggles the mind.
I applaud Microsoft for having the courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us.
Maybe some day they'll put in an advanced error handling utility like the Amiga Guru Meditation.
> There is no blue-green colorblindess. It's either red-green or blue-yellow.
BZZT. Thanks for playing.
Monochromacy - Sees everything in black and white. Example
Deuteranopes - Confuse Blue-greens with grey and mid-pinks
Tritanopes - The most common confusion are light blues with greys, dark purples with black, mid-greens with blues and oranges with reds.
Protanopia - Confuses some blues with some reds, purples and dark pinks; confuses Mid-greens with some oranges.
There is no blue-green colorblindess. It's either red-green or blue-yellow.
Whoever told you that was mistaken and you never bothered to check.
No doubt Microsoft's next move will be an attempt to convince people it's just a screen saver.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
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This will allow customer service to know whether you were running a production build (blue), versus a test one (green). This kind of techniques are used in many companies, and while test build issues are important, they are not as high priority as production ones.
Are we talking about the latest IE (11?)
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There is: Africans cannot discern them well, blue from green. It is the SAME, like for us red and orange are also interchangeable for practical matters. And they are ALSO somewhat like deuteranopes: THEY CANNOT SEE PINK. Like in the phrase: dead hands. They all have dead hands, ie, pink hands seen as a corpse grey or greenish... Ask them, interpret what they reply under this optic (pun unintended but embedded in language).
Actually that's a linguistic oddity not an issue with colorblindness. In Linguistics there is a principle called Linguistic Relativity that basically says the structure of your language affects the speakers world view. My Linguistics professor explanation is that those tribes had no word for green, thus explained the color as a shade of blue. See Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...