Diguelo
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From what I read recently, the fabled "Blue Screen Of Death" is to be retired soon after a life span of merely 40 years.
As the Windows 10 lifespan reaches its support death, (cant make any money on it any more) and everyone jumps on the bandwagon of Windows 11 the BSOD is to be retired, mainly due to the fact it doesnt take a genius or a rocket scientist to notice "Hey My machines locked up."
Bring back Dr Watson that used to be fairly good at catching issues, nowadays it takes seconds to reboot a crash or lock up, tacking it or debuging it however can take a while. The last reposrted BSOD repair I did was back in 2015 on a Windows 7 system. Nowadays floating gracefully into retirement (yeah like thats going to happen) the issues of lockups are pretty much driver related. Ive had a few software bugs needed squashing but most of them were just incompatability. Sorry guys but the old MSDOS code is no longer workable in windows and you have reached a "Time to get updated " point in the programs life. Or just do what I like to do and remake the program in the Visual Studio MS have seen fit to provide free of charge now.
I can even recall a rare function I saw twice, A RED SCREEN OF DEATH, mostly Hardware related frag out of the system. Boss and IT guys told me hey what you doing it cant be fixed we have a specialist on the way from god knows where to fix this. Thermal paste squirt later and all fixed. Sent the boss a bill for the £3000 the called in engineers would have charged, never got it paid though.
I will miss the BSOD its been a good pay day for me over the decades.
As the Windows 10 lifespan reaches its support death, (cant make any money on it any more) and everyone jumps on the bandwagon of Windows 11 the BSOD is to be retired, mainly due to the fact it doesnt take a genius or a rocket scientist to notice "Hey My machines locked up."
Bring back Dr Watson that used to be fairly good at catching issues, nowadays it takes seconds to reboot a crash or lock up, tacking it or debuging it however can take a while. The last reposrted BSOD repair I did was back in 2015 on a Windows 7 system. Nowadays floating gracefully into retirement (yeah like thats going to happen) the issues of lockups are pretty much driver related. Ive had a few software bugs needed squashing but most of them were just incompatability. Sorry guys but the old MSDOS code is no longer workable in windows and you have reached a "Time to get updated " point in the programs life. Or just do what I like to do and remake the program in the Visual Studio MS have seen fit to provide free of charge now.
I can even recall a rare function I saw twice, A RED SCREEN OF DEATH, mostly Hardware related frag out of the system. Boss and IT guys told me hey what you doing it cant be fixed we have a specialist on the way from god knows where to fix this. Thermal paste squirt later and all fixed. Sent the boss a bill for the £3000 the called in engineers would have charged, never got it paid though.
I will miss the BSOD its been a good pay day for me over the decades.
