Blue screen of death at the Olympics
Most regular users of Windows encounter the infamous Blue Screen of Death at one time or the other. Even Bill Gates got it when doing a big presentation once. Now it has occurred at the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. PC World reports:
Anyone who has ever touched a Windows PC can tell you about how frustrating it is to encounter the Blue Screen of Death. Now just imagine that happening on the global stage.
In case you haven’t yet heard, that’s exactly what happened during the Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. While the Olympic flame was being lit, the familiar blue screen with white text was projected around the Bird’s Nest.
Yup, you guessed it: The PC used to project the images around the stadium apparently ran into some problems, according to our friends at Gizmodo.
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I tried watching some of the Olympics event videos using Internet Explorer and Microsoft’s Silverlight add-in on the MSN website. This is supposed to give better resolution images than using Flash video. I have only gotten it to work once. I have given up and gone back to using Firefox and the NBC and YouTube websites. The resolution may not be good but at least they are more reliable.