“Microsoft’s Windows operating system is often mocked for its blue screen of death, the dreaded error message that appears on an all-too-often basis when attempting to work the computer too hard,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Android.
“Now it seems the company’s Windows Phone platform has a nasty error message of its own,” Bell reports. “This particular error message, spotted on the HTC 8X, rather hilariously asks you to ‘insert your Windows installation disk’ and ‘repair your computer’ to continue.”
Bell reports, “It’s clearly a basic error message that’s part of the Windows platform, which Microsoft didn’t bother updating for Windows Phone devices.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yet more hall-asssed, unfinished Microsoftian crap thrust into the hands of the hopelessly masochistic.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
My chuckle for the day! thanks MDN!
Polished and smooooth, that’s Microsoft! (not.)
Apple: sweating the details
Microsoft: sweating
This is NOT the work of professionals.
The people that worked on this should be ashamed.
Did Management asshats get a bonus for “getting it done on time”?
I see the same thing on gas pump machines. Blue screen of death asking for input from keyboard….. er…….. what keyboard. ???
LOL
Gas pumps run by Windows???? That’s scary. I thought bank machines run by Windows was scary, but gas pumps????
And Boeing tried out an aviation version IIRC. Imagine a BSOD at 35,000 feet.
Boeing uses windows in their enterprise and a lot of their design and test software is on windows but they never tried putting windows on a plane running flight control systems.
The 787 is running Green Hills Software INTEGRITY 178B OS for flight controls.
You need a real time kernel with extreme fault tolerance for something like an aircraft.
I wouldn’t even trust OS X for the job.
… “what keyboard”, anyone remember when attempting to boot a Windows machine without a keyboard attached would result in a “Keyboard not found” (so far, so good) “Press the F1 key to continue” … what?
😉
My 2009 Ford Taurus with Microsoft Sync will frequently decide to not operate the phone dialer correctly. For example, I’d tell it to call my girl friend Kathy at home. It will announce “Multiple numbers found. Use the key pad to select. Press one to dial Kathy at home, press two to dial Kathy at home, press three to dial Kathy at home, press four to dial Kathy.” Note, Kathy has only a cell phone and a home phone. . . and the car has no key pad! Another time Sync may Announce “multiple numbers found. Use the arrow keys to select, and the phone key to dial.” Four problems. (1) There are three sets of “arrow” keys on the car and (2) none of them are on the steering wheel near the Sync controls, so you have to remove your eyes from the road to use them, but (3) you have to remove your eyes from the road anyway to look at the radio dial to see the number displayed to select it, but (4) then it does this when there is only one number to choose from and displays the same number for each step of the arrow key when you figure out which set you are supposed to be using. Oh, did I mention the Microsoft edited Sync manual doesn’t mention which set of keys it’s referring to? Aaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!
Sounds just like a MS product. Did you try CTRL, ALT and DEL?
0_o
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hilarious
Like MDN’s take?
As headmaster of this prestigious institution, could I please ask all students to refrain from mooning in the hallway. Hall assed, or should I say “hall asssed” (thats “hall assed” with a snake) is extremely frowned upon.
Laugh out loud funny.
As much as I LOVE to make fun of Microsoft, I find this one hard to believe. The Windows Phone OS is not directly derived from Windows for PC. So it seems unlikely that this is a leftover standard error message “which Microsoft didn’t bother updating for Windows Phone devices.”
Probably an image file of the error message from a PC being displayed on the Windows Phone screen, as a prank… 🙂 A pretty good one.
Starting with Windows Phone 8 they are using an ARM ported version of the NT kernel with the WinRT runtime.
I very much believe this story!
Microsoft: Just another example of the dark side.
What?!?! Windows Phones don’t have optical disc and floppy drives?!?!
There’s another whole group of required options that jack up the price way beyond buyer expectations. Or maybe they distribute the install disk on an SD card that fits into the SD slot.
Windows failed to start. This is not uncommon, do not be afraid. Please drop this device into the nearest toilet, flush and walk away. If you ever find another device that does work, ring us and tell us what you did because our stuff keeps crashing too.
– Its about time they updated the message, thought I would give them a hand.
LOL
Send all Windows phones to Iran Nuclear Program Institute!
Who’d have thought it? Microsoft as a force in world affairs, stopping conflicts in their tracks. Arm the militias with Windows phones, no communication, end of war. Perfect.
My god, thats crazy! Might be fake…but this (below) is definitely not fake.
As a longtime Windows user i feel bad for these errors windows just does not have it together anymore just inserted disc reinstall the operating system. Well I guess that doesn’t work anymore still very sad though. It just proves that they seem to of missed the fact of post-PC.
This is the stuff nightmares are made of.
Well done Microsoft. Keep up the lousy work. Please do speed your own demise.
MDN take: +1 … How true!
if screenshot is not fake, wow.
typical msft.
so steve baldmer can scream all he wants about how innovative/advanced msft is, yet look at the legacy luggage their mobile solution carries!! will msft never learn, snap out of it?!
the shame is Windows Phone was the only chance after iOS to kill off cheap Android, but maybe now humanity will keep suffering from droidness, living dead consumers – since iOS consumers are not the biggest marketshare…
Windows Phone = DOS Mobile.
now that Android has no cheap competitor, MSFT’s last chance to profit is gone, and will follow IBM’s demise (in PC industry)…msft has not learned in 15 years if its ass in is in front or its back, and has obviously failed to realize its dick is up its ass fo so long, it’s comfi in its own vomit by now. such stupid firms must disappear from our american roster, it’s too embarassing and kills our economic viability.
No, no you forgot. Microsoft said they had one operating system that runs on all their devices.
They do from the standpoint of the NT Kernel and winRT but looking at that error they still have a lot of crap to clean out of the ARM version of the kernel they used for winphone 8 lol
That screen is MS DOS! From 1985!
Except that it refers to Windows…
Nonetheless, amazing MS seems to think the only way to fix Windows is a complete reinstall. Indeed, the only way to fix Windows is to format the drive and install something else, anything else…
The best way to fix Windows is to buy a Mac. Or, in this case, an iPhone. Guaranteed to never get another Windows fail.
The only reasonable explanation but I can come up with is that Microsoft purposely plants these errors in their public demonstrations as a joke for all of the viewers.
I believe the correct idiom MDN was looking for is “haul-assed”.
Half-assed
Ha ha, never gets old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRLRjKCGHek
“Choose your language settings….”
Is there a setting for expletives?
This was a result of hacking attempt. The user tried to flash the phone. https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/289796879615664128