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During the ceremony, many spectators saw a Windows XP blue screen of death projected onto the ceiling of the stadium for two hours. A photo of Li Ning, who lighted the cauldron, passing the blue screen went viral. [77]
The IT operations of the Olympics were hampered by a global IT outage on 19 July 2024 due to a faulty update provided by CrowdStrike, causing computers that were running Windows to experience the blue screen of death. The outage occurred a day after the Olympic Village opened and organisers were processing the arrivals of athletes and delegates.
Digital signage at Dulles International Airport displaying a blue screen of death during the incident Globally, 5,078 air flights, 4.6% of those scheduled that day, were cancelled. [ 54 ] [ 27 ] An unrelated Microsoft Azure outage, affecting services such as Microsoft 365 , compounded airlines' problems.
And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.
The singer said it was the first time he had sung the song and was frustrated the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had refused to use subtitles, leading in part, he says, to the confusion ...
Here are some of the weirdest moments from the opening ceremony. A masked individual carries the torch. The opening ceremony began with a pre-recorded video of French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane ...
The Blue Screen of Death (also called BSoD, or stop error) is a common name for a screen displayed by the Microsoft Windows operating system when a critical system ...
There is a sense of one-upmanship inherent in the Olympic ceremonies, which peaked over the 2008 and 2012 games. Beijing’s curtain-raiser – considered one of the greatest theatrical spectacles ...