Window’s Blue Screen of Death was the tech world’s joke du jour for poking fun at Microsoft’s crash-friendly software, and while many believed the blue screen had finally died, it looks like Windows Phone is carrying on the proud tradition of the horrific error notification.
Ars Technica tech editor, Peter Bright tweeted the picture above of his Nokia Windows Phone with the fatal error screen. Other Twitter users have also posted shots of their Windows Phone afflicted by the BSoD ‘process initialization failed’ error.
The Blue Screen of Death has been around since the days of Windows NT and was updated to include a sad face emoticon for the disastrous release of Windows 8. Microsoft is uniting its mobile and desktop operating systems with the upcoming release of Windows 9, but rather than coming up with a new error screen, it looks Redmond decided it’s still better than an insanely annoying spinning beach ball.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
22 responses to “The Blue Screen of Death is still alive and well on Windows Phone”
Windows…still crashing after all these years.
Great album!!
Like every OS, lol. It’s fun to pick on the legendary BSOD though ;D
It’s always fun to pick on Windows. But it’s such an easy target.
Thats so true even more so in recent years…..Microsoft simply make our jobs easier these days with there pathetic OS and and horrible line up of disastrous phones.
Really? I take it you have no experience with them at all since you obviously hate them. I can tell you that Windows Phone blows away the competition on reliability and performance. Have you just decided to forget about the disaster that is iOS 8 and the massive problems it is causing for even their brand new iPhone 6? Wake up fella!
Windows BSoD generally means some sort of hardware failure or driver issue. I haven’t seen one on my Lumia 930. However, apps crash and they crash often. I had the phone freeze while trying to make a phone call, which could only be resolved with a reboot. Then there are the sometimes random reboots. I once ended up in a state where the screen rotate was locked (even though I could switch lock rotate on and off) and wouldn’t rotate, the camera would crash every time I tried taking a picture – fixed by a reboot of course.
I though, heck, I’d try a Windows Phone at least once. However, now that I did, I can recommend that nobody should ever consider it. Even when you find the app you’re looking for, the quality is not up to scratch. I haven’t looked forward to getting rid of a phone this much since I had an HTC Magic with Android 1.5.
Also, to point out an error in the article, the next version of Windows is not 9, it’s 10. Microsoft’s reasoning was that the next version of Windows is so big that a single version increment wouldn’t cut it.
I don’t think your experience is even close to the average. I’ve never heard of WP instability—I’ve always read and seen the opposite.
You have read and seen, while I live with it on a daily basis. Me and a couple other guys at the office have windows phones and we all have different issues. Luck of the draw I guess. The point is, we all have issues.
I had a wok issued lumia 930 for a while and i cannot even begin to tell you how much i could not stand the phone.
Windows phone coming from a apple persons perspective is a car crash and i would never ever choose one in my personal life, one of the worst things though is the app situation it is absolutely dire and even though i keep getting told thats getting better all the time………….The ones i have tried on the windows phone platform are very very inferior to the iOS and android versions of the same app.
I have a Lumia 928, 822, and 520 and they have all been damn near flawless devices all running 8.1 developer preview. I have heard of issues only with the 930 model so I would say there is some sort of device specific issue there. We never deal with lockups, app crashes, and reboots. Sucks you got a bunked device.
Welp.
Fwiw I’ve used about 8 different Windows phones the past few years and haven’t ever seen a bsod. I wonder if he was trying to flash it or something?
I think you mean up coming version of Windows 10???
I have a Nokia Lumia 930 never had a BSOD or any apps crash its the best phone I’ve ever had
I had a 5S blue screen(no text) then restart on its own. Very strange for an iPhone but its possible on any platform..
BSOD…..is that similar to Apple’s WIFI connectivity problems on the iPhone and Macs?
I updated my wife iPhone 5S to 8.1 and it put her phone into a blue screen boot loop. I went to see how to fix it on the Apple support forums and lo and behold hundreds of posts from others with the same issue… it would appear that BSOD’s are alive and kicking in iOS too…
Yet these clowns make articles making fun of Microsoft while iPhones BSOD all over the globe. Classic Mac arrogance at its best. And trust me you aren’t the only one with issues after updating. There is a laundry list of problems with it.
Windows 10,
They’re skipping 9.
I’ve have a Lumia 1520 and 1020 and this has never happened to me.
“Proud tradition”? Really…? *shakes head*
Next release of Windows is Windows 10. Not 9. But I guess that was to difficult to find out.