BSOD to be no more and will be a GSOD

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/30/2016 05:22 PM | source: | 38 comment(s)

What everybody learned to know and understands as the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crash intercept screen, nearly a cultural heritage of the Microsoft operating systems, seems to become something of the past. Microsoft gave an early Windows build a different color, a green GSOD.

A big Windows 10 build leaked online over the Christmas weekend and that revealed things like described today, a Green Screen of Death, or GSOD.

At least it is that way in the preview builds for Windows Insiders, we do not really know as to why Microsoft would be making the move, other then that a green screens feels a bit more positive psychologically. Well that or to distinguish retail builds from insider builds in relation to customer support. Windows Insiders will the Green Screen of Death starting at build 14997, not officially rolled out just yet.

As to why Microsoft opted for the color green is yet to be known ..

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JOHN30011887
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#5376344 Posted on: 12/30/2016 05:32 PM

Ever since i upgraded to a much better Psu iv never had a bluescreen for many years now, years ago i had those quad rail psu that was only 20amps so most times when i played a game it would bluescreen, when i played crysis 2 at the start of that game my psu actually popped, now iv got the xfx core edition 850w with 70amps on 12v single rail

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#5376345 Posted on: 12/30/2016 05:35 PM

Pretty sure a Microsoft employee confirmed on reddit it's so they can distinguish insider from non-insider builds because people keep posting BSOD's of insider builds on public forums.

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