Sure to annoy IT people but those just need a line of text while the rest of the screen is free real estate for Micro$oft! Public BSODs tend to go viral too.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    This is so cynical and absurd I kind of expect it to happen. Late stage capitalism, yay.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    “Your computer might be fucked or whatever. Maybe do some shit about it. Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. We love you.”

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      They are already kinda doing this. The QR code resolves to http://www.windows.com/stopcode, which has a Microsoft 365 ad (who would have guessed?)

      Edit: the pic I scanned was old, they have since changed it to “https” to close a trivial MITM attack vector for tech support scam websites.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Too bad bluescreened computers likely won’t report back viewership stats

      (It’s a joke, I know that the very existence of a bluescreen literally means that the processor has not hung but it has been detected that proceeding to run userspace code might result in undefined behavior; the network stack might remain functional throughout)

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    0·
    2 months ago

    They can barely show useful information on that screen, how they can show ads?

    For example, the qr code is completely useless - you would expect to send the user to a page that explains the problem or even just search the error string on Bing, but no, it sends to a placeholder page that doesn’t say anything useful

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      That’s where the innovation could happen. It could take users to a page that prompts them to download Microsoft Edge for mobile and then does nothing else