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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
01/13/09

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Well I haven't gotten that far. Can't get through the install yet. May have to burn another disk or download the file again....

Not a great start but I'm still keeping an open mind.
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yoshi
01/13/09

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What's funny is Microsoft actually has changed the color of the screen of death. They did this to prove that Microsoft basher's still exist even though the blue screen of death no longer exists.
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ZLevee
01/13/09

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I think the commenters are forgetting that you're reporting on how MS couldn't be bothered updating the BSOD, and not reporting on the fact that you got one - you do acknowledge that it's still in Beta. On the other hand, Giz contributed to causing itself criticism by titling the post something that looks like you were reporting on the latter case.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/13/09

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Maybe, instead of a BSOD, it should just have a preloaded slideshow of pornographic imagery and the girls can hold up index cards giving off the same message. If you're really in need of info, it's there, but if you decided to say "fuck it I'll fix it later", you still have access to porn, even if you can't use your computer.
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OMG! Ponies!
01/12/09

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I got $10 says Norton is somehow involved.
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seizure
01/12/09

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And I suppose that the kernel panic screen which tells you how to restart your machine in 5 different languages is more informative than the BSOD?
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Jason Chen
01/12/09

@seizure: No, it isn't.
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Mike918
01/12/09

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Oh sorry Giz i love you but this is totally biased...Os x isnt perfect...i have been using the beta for a while and it runs perfectly, it actually works if you dont mess with drivers that arent made for windows 7.

Maybe is just me but never on my entire windows usage i have got the BSOD.
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Jason Chen
01/12/09

@Mike918: When did I talk about OS X at all?
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Redandwhite: also preview free since March 09
01/12/09

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I'm going out on a limb and saying the problem was caused by iTunes.

Not only do I see a white iPod cable attached, but on my Vista machine, iTunes is the only thing which gives me a BSOD. It's very easy to reproduce:

1) Plug in iPod Touch, wait for iTunes to load normally

2) Sync, etc

3) Click the power button to go to sleep

4) Unplug the iPod while the computer is still on sleep mode

5) Wake up the computer, log back in

6) With iTunes still open from last time, just plug in the iPod to experience a flash of BSOD before an automatic reboot...
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Jason Chen
01/12/09

@redandwhite: It wasn't actually (didn't have iTunes installed), but thanks for typing/pasting that in case someone does have that problem.
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yoshi
01/13/09

@redandwhite:

Yes. iTunes is a very unstable Windows application. You would think Apple could develop a stable enough application to run on Windows.
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Thinger
01/12/09

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Ah yes, I much prefer they spent time making the BSOD as pleasant as possible, than say resolving the BSOD.

I know! Maybe with each one they send Dominos to your door with a pizza? Then they'd fix it!~
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Jason Chen
01/12/09

@Thinger: I would like that very much.
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NickIQ
01/12/09

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You'd prefer what, an unhappy face or bomb icon that doesn't tell you dick about the problem?
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Jason Chen
01/12/09

@NickIQ: No, that would be dumb.
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MS-18E Shadoblak
01/12/09

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I didn't even get Blue screens in Vista....How the hell did you manage that??
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Derek Erdmann
01/12/09

@shadoblak: Good question. 2 hours into my first Vista experience, just over a year ago, I somehow managed to get a BSOD. Don't ask me how.
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
01/12/09

@Derek Erdmann: I installed Kirpraswki Virus Scanner and the kernel mode driver gave me a BSOD every time it started.

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Not sure what the editors deal is but BSOD are commonly caused by bad drivers rather then a simple kernel defect but I guess people have been eager to to report these sort of errors. Anyways, hope it works for people.
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Andrew Lichtenhan
01/12/09

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Got to love Gizmodo coverage. Not biased at all.
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HarmonyJalooner
01/12/09

@Andrew Lichtenhan: Gizmodo totally is, there hasn't been much coverage of Windows 7 Beta at all, but when you do get anything Windows related count on it being about how it sucked or Failed...

I prefer my computer crashing and giving me a BSOD than no warning and computer locked with a Spinning Beach ball...

BTW, I use a Windows Desktop, a Linux HTPC, and Macbook, not biased towards or against anything, I just wish Gizmodo would just cover tech news without bias.
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something_unique_and_descriptive
01/12/09

@HarmonyJalooner: Your sarcasm detector needs calibrating ASAP.
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CarmineTriton
01/12/09

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The blue screen is informative and to the point. It gives you all the information you need, if you know how to use google and can search for a solution to the broken driver. Why change it?

Its sure better than a spinning beachball.
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Jason Chen
01/12/09

@CarmineTriton: Spinning beach ball is the equivalent of the hourglass, and not the same as the BSOD. Like I said in the post, if the BSOD showed you which component (you know, in layman's terms), it would be much easier for your mother or my mother to unplug that new photo frame that crashed her system instead of calling us up and asking her what photodriver.sys means.
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something_unique_and_descriptive
01/12/09

@Jason Chen: The problem with giving user-friendly info like that is that a lot of people really shouldn't be messing around in the guts of an OS or inside a case.

I've seen people delete their Kernel32.dll, or explorer.exe files. I want them to get the most cryptic hex code possible so that they have to call someone with a brain in order to figure things out (and Microsoft post a list of what those codes mean). 99% of the time that's more useful than any error message, it shocks the user into thinking "oh, shit this is serious techie stuff, I better get help", I can't even count how many times I've had this conversation:

User: My computer's giving me errors.

Me: Okay, what do they say?

User: I don't know, I just click okay and they go away.
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Hello Mister Walrus
01/12/09

@eriegz: That's what she said?
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ripfire
01/13/09

@Jason Chen: The only time Microsoft will ever make their error much easier to understand is when:

1) Microsoft actually makes their own hardware for their OS or

2) All hardware manufacturers conform to whatever spec Microsoft make up or

3) At least all PC hardware manufacturers (competitors or not) work together nicely
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First
01/12/09

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Maybe the Rainbow and Unicorn screen of Death?
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First
01/12/09

@winmac: or what you see when you died in Doom, Gauntlet, or Duke Nukem 3D
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Hello Mister Walrus
01/12/09

@winmac: Tubgirl.
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myspace.com/airmanshirk
01/12/09

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wont be your last =/
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axed
01/12/09

@ipod-Therefore-iam:

oh? so you've had a lot of experience with win7 crashing?
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crash1105
01/12/09

@axed: freezing crashing failing to install software trying to tell me my download was corrupt even though it works on the vista partition and the xp partition still wont play crysis antivirus causing wholesale chaos not one but 2 different ones downloaded with the find antivirus link in windows7 3 different bluescreens on one machine 2 on another 3rd install seems to work alright on the macbook no more trys left in me for the gaming rig went back to xp on it my girlfriends laptop refused to work at all but I will scratch that up to her video card no dvd movies on the machine that bsoded 3 times only one that seems stable now is a macbook aluminum go figure
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IN THE FACE!
01/13/09

@crash1105: It would probably work a LOT better if you weren't trying to install it after polishing off 10 grams of meth and a 12 pack....

Computers don't work after you have chewed on them for long enough...
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IN THE FACE!
01/13/09

@myspace.com/airmanshirk: Glad to see all the trolls and fanbois, I knew you would come out of the woodwork for this one.

Well, I've installed Win 7 on about a dozen machines now (several businesses I admin for want to test their software on it). Not a single blue screen (haven't even needed to forcibly kill a single program yet), and that is even with several installs onto hardware of questionable compatibility...

So far about 80% of the software I have tested works on 7 (some of it slightly predates XP, and a few titles are damn well ancient ~Win98)...

Leaving all machines on 24/7, some have been running for two weeks straight (so I didn't wait for the beta to open... does it matter now?).

for a grand total of: 0 BSODs, 0 unnecessary restarts, 0 hardware incompatibilites, albeit I was installing mostly on generic business machines of varying age, not cutting edge gaming rigs or anything special).

Suck it! I'm convinced, and everyone should shut the fcuk up and install it for themselves, don't listen to me or any of these other wankers. Create a partition and install it for yourself if you want to know how it runs.......

Its fcuking free, go do it!
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