The computer failure of Microsoft It has collapsed airlines, banks, media outlets on a global level, which also shows one of its worst images when many computers are turned on: the so-called“blue screen of death”.
This blue screen (BSoD, Blue Screen of Deathin its acronym in English) appears when the Microsoft Windows operating system cannot recover a system error or it feels like it won’t be able to do so. And it stops, freezes, and can’t continue working.
At that moment, the blue screen which usually includes an error code that can help diagnose the problem without determining it and forces the computer to restartas indicated Microsoft on its corporate website.
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Josep Albors, director of research and awareness of ESET Spain, has confirmed to EFE that the aforementioned update is what has caused the appearance of the blue screens in Windows systems, both clients and servers, chaining a series of problems all over the planetfrom Australia to Japan and now in Europe and the United States.
Blue screens are just a feature of Windows, does not appear on other operating systems as Mac o Linux; This is an error message that occurs when Windows cannot recover from a system failure, Albors explained.
The “blue screen of death” was a Steve Ballmer’s creationwhen he was in charge of the operating systems division of Microsoftand was designed for Windows 1.0the first system developed by the company in 1985.
Since then, the appearance, while still remaining blue, has changed as operating systems have been replaced and The company has tried to reduce the number of failures.
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Its current appearance is the one presented since Windows appeared, with a light blue background, with the drawing of two dots and a parenthesis, similar to the sad emoji and frustration from social networks, and with a universal text that does not indicate the error that caused the block.
Aside from the specific problem of this July 19, when the dreaded blue screen appears The first thing to do is try to restart the computer.
In many cases, If the error is not very serious, the system itself may be able to fix it. the fault and get back to working smoothly.
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