Sure to annoy IT people but those just need a line of text while the rest of the screen is free real estate for Micro$oft! Public BSODs tend to go viral too.
This is so cynical and absurd I kind of expect it to happen. Late stage capitalism, yay.
“Your computer might be fucked or whatever. Maybe do some shit about it. Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. We love you.”
“You seem to have no idea what this screen means. You might be interested in McAfee.”
How would you even understand what the screen means if it doesn’t tell you this anymore
Their most popular page, a goldmine of opportunity.
Too bad bluescreened computers likely won’t report back viewership stats
(It’s a joke, I know that the very existence of a bluescreen literally means that the processor has not hung but it has been detected that proceeding to run userspace code might result in undefined behavior; the network stack might remain functional throughout)
Microsoft would do anything to keep the statcounting service running more stable than the kernel itself
dear user.
thank you for your report.
please be assured that even in the event of a bsod, windows will still report metrics back to microsoft so long as the system drive is operational for use as temporary storage of that data until the next successful windows boot.
new OOB ad metrics reporting will also be added to intel ime and amd psp in future processors in order to further address your concern.
-microsoft support
It’s a joke, I know that the very existence of a bluescreen literally means that the processor has not hung but it has been detected that proceeding to run userspace code might result in undefined behavior. The hard drive remains in use but this relies on a subsequent successful Windows boot (good luck). In case of bootlooping kiosks, the company’s IT crew will probably just pull useful data off the drive and revert it to the known good installation.
If the BSOD happens on a running PC, networking will probably continue working. With a bootloop, it depends on whether the network stack initialization has progressed far enough before the crash.
Steve Jobs would have bought that ad space
Alternative universe: In order to pay back Microsoft for saving them from bankruptcy, Apple buys up ad space on Windows BSODs.
I remember back in the day before browsers had much in the way of protection, and ads could do basically whatever they wanted on your computer. I distinctly remember seeing ads back in the 2000s that would go fullscreen and emulate a BSOD, with a number to call a fake Microsoft Support.
They can’t show things outside of your browser window, anymore, which is what those ads did
