2017 might just be the year of the Green Screen of Death in Windows 10
Just when you thought there wouldn’t be Internet meme’s left that could be made out of Microsoft’s most iconic critical stop message, here comes the Windows 10 Insider team, testing out an upcoming build featuring what appears to be an angry, green version that will make your Windows 10 desktop or laptop go: “Windows! Smash!”.
The color change, is not yet official, with its foundation the object of speculation. Opinions are divided among two main schools of thought. The first is advancing the theory that this is simply a way for Microsoft to track stop errors triggered by Windows Insiders, posted on social media, while the alternative theory is that Microsoft might be starting to color-code stop errors, attributing different colors according to the type of error triggered.
The latter theory ties in with the reason why Microsoft has added a QR Code to Windows 10 Multi-Coloured Screen of Death, which, at least for the time being, links to a general Microsoft support page.
Microsoft is obviously actively working on reengineering the iconic critical stop error, to make it more helpful to regular users who may not have sufficient technical savvy to interpret long-winded error codes meant for Microsoft’s tech support team.
Microsoft has been consistent in affirming its intent to make Windows 10, the easiest, most accessible operating system across all platforms, and within this context, the Windows team has done some amazing work in changing the way error messages are displayed, through the supply of far more detailed information, in place of cryptic lingo.
The Windows team’s “agile development approach” is what makes this process possible, and Microsoft Windows “as a service” a brilliant concept.
The build in question, however, is not an official build, but rather a leaked Windows 10 build that might, or might not make it to Insiders, anytime soon.
It’s plausible that Microsoft may introduce a lot of cool new features that will directly affect both the delivery of error messages, and how messages are reported, however we may have to wait until late 2017 to find out.
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