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  • Yammer Crashes Following Microsoft Purchase [UPDATE]

    UPDATE:

    Shelley Risk, Yammer’s Director of Communications, has sent WebProNews the following statement:

    Yammer experienced an outage today at approx. 6:24 a.m. PST for 20 minutes, followed by a period of slowness and was back to normal by 8:34 a.m. We are still determining the cause of the outage.

    ORIGINAL STORY:

    Yesterday we brought you news that enterprise-exclusive social media network Yammer had been bought by Microsoft. Less than 24 hours later it looks like Microsoft has made its first contribution to its new subsidiary: the famous Blue Screen of Death.

    Okay, not literally. But Yammer’s network has been down for a good part of the day, which doesn’t look good for Yammer or Microsoft immediately following the purchase. The outage appears to be taking place all over the world, though the severity varies from place to place. According to TechCrunch, Yammer is down completely in London, while the outage is more spotty in San Francisco.

    As yet Yammer hasn’t released any statements on what’s causing the outage or when they expect the situation to be resolved. A request for comment sent to Yammer has not yet been answered. We will update you as the situation develops.

  • Windows 8 Blue Screen of Death Has A Sad

    While everyone is pouring over the Windows 7 Tutorials, Guides” href=”http://ihackers.net/”>Windows 8 preview, one of the more amusing finds concerns the infamous Windows’ Blue Screen of Death, which is Microsoft’s way of telling you the session of Windows you’ve been working with has failed, either through user error or a computational mistake.

    In previous BSoD formats, the screen contained details of the crash, followed by a “restart your computer” command or something similar. In Windows 8, however, the details are no longer featured on the next-gen BSoDs. Instead, they’ve been replaced by a frown smiley and a message telling you your computer gagged and needs to be restarted.

    An example of these new BSoDs can be seen leading this post, which comes courtesy of Geek.com. Apparently, Windows was developing a more ominous Black Screen of Death, but instead, chose the more friendly-looking frown.

    Because the new BSoD frown face doesn’t offer any details as to why the computer crashed, Geek.com explains what concerned users will need to do in order to find out why:

    A reboot is going to happen at this point, but if you want to find out what caused the problem you need to write down or remember the search term it presents you with. The two search terms I have seen suggested so far are “System Service Exception” and “HAL Installation Failed.” I doubt either will return that much useful information as they are both quite generic terms.

    Just because we can, here’s a YouTube featuring the history of the various BSoDs Windows users have encountered.


    Is the frown face an improvement or does all the information need to be present, as was the case with previous BSoDs?