This is what the Windows 8 'Blue Screen of Death' looks like
Microsoft's Windows 8 looks fantastic and everybody's talking about it. It has that sweet Metro UI, it's super fast to boot up and there's Xbox Live integration. What more could you want?
How about the cutest, most friendly "Blue Screen of Death" to date? No more lines of coded error messages — just a clean frowny face and a line that regular people can actually understand: Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn't handle, and now it needs to restart.
It's so simple and uncluttered, it's almost Apple-like.
The old Blue Screens are dead, and to honor them all, we present the bluest gallery on DVICE, ever. My, how things have changed throughout the last 16 years.
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Windows 1.0 - 2.0: A mess of bits.
Windows 3.x, 95, 98 and ME: The most famous of them all, most users have seen this one before.
Windows 2000: Apparently, Microsoft thought it was a good idea to jumble the text into the upper left corner again.
Windows XP, Vista and 7: Somehow, the Blue Screen of Death got wordier as the years went by.
Windows Vista: A rare one-line BSoD in Microsoft's most controversial and least popular Windows operating system.
Windows 8: Simplified and a friendly coat of blue, the new BSoD actually has some emotion to it. Yes, we'd frown too if our PC crashed.
