Saturday, February 25, 2006
World's Largest Error Message?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 01:00 AM
"We went down to New York for the long weekend. Despite the 16-degree weather, we walked down to Times Square - all the bright lights lured us the ten blocks from our hotel. When we got there, we stood like, well, tourists, gaping at all the electronic billboards. And then, across the square, I saw it: the world's largest Windows error message - on a two-story high e-billboard (I guess everything really is bigger in New York). It was the only billboard in the entire square with absolutely no movement - since the PC running it had obviously frozen."
This is a powerful object lesson for Microsoft: if you want to be a platform for digital media, stability is a must.
This is a powerful object lesson for Microsoft: if you want to be a platform for digital media, stability is a must.
