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Windows Phone Error Message Tells Users To Insert CD And Restart Computer

71 points by interconnector 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago
The blue screen of death jokes for Windows phones have suddenly turned into reality.
- vy8vWJlco 14y ago
  I sincerely hope the ones about heart monitors don't come true too.
  - meaty 14y ago
    Actually a certain "critical care" Welch Allyn device magically got a switch from Windows CE to VxWorks a few years ago after some "incidents" apparently. I can't cite anything to prove this other than I know someone who worked for an agency who rented their kit out and it was gradually "upgraded" due to reliability problems.
jspaur 14y ago
The guy was flashing his phone and ran into issues. Kinda cool to see it using that much of the Windows code base (kernel and bootmanager atleast)
- lostlogin 14y ago
  That's a way less severe issue as this would hardly be a problem for the standard user then.
- joenathan 14y ago
  He may have been trying to flash Windows RT.
jonemo 14y ago
As so often when people tinker and hack, the guy who did this probably had no anticipation about how the media and normal people will interpret this photo. What sticks about this story is that Windows Phone will sometimes ask you - in monospace white writing - for a CD to be inserted. This one photo might have more negative marketing effect than any of their flashy Windows Phone ads on TV can make up for.
- untog 14y ago
  This one photo might have more negative marketing effect than any of their flashy Windows Phone ads on TV can make up for. No-one outside of tech blogs cares about this photo.
smilliken 14y ago
Imagine the surprise of the author(s) of this boot loader that this code would eventually be running on a cell phone.
JamesMcMinn 14y ago
The users was loading custom ROMs onto their device, something went wrong, and the phone displayed an error which it would otherwise never have shown. Not really much of a story, more an opportunity to poke fun at Windows.
- ericclemmons 14y ago
  That's really a shame. Similar to that story on how thieves stole only Apple devices from a Microsoft campus. People love to pile on to Microsoft, but it looks like, ever so slowly, since the Xbox launched there's some actual ingenuity and design within the company that's finally pushing through their old image. (If people would let it)
  - Shorel 14y ago
    The Windows RT-Only Store is as much bad publicity as any old tale about MS mischief. They could have created a Steam-like all-kind-of-Windows-Apps store and sell Office, Adobe products, Autodesk products, Antivirus, development tools, games, etc, all in one place, and blew that chance hard. I hope Steam wins both in Windows and outside it (the Steam Box).
xorgar831 14y ago
Step number 2 is especially helpful: 2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." Unix had a funny "not a typewriter" error message that eventually ended up in an Apple OS: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31349 http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31349
- udp 14y ago
  I've also had an error message along the lines of "cannot read from tape" when using tar(1) in OS X.
  - SoftwareMaven 14y ago
    Well, tar is the Tape ARchiver, so that makes more sense. It just happens that everything is a file in unix, whether it's a file or a tape driver.
- ysangkok 14y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter I think it will be hard to remove ENOTTY. It is documented differently now, but as you can see, the error message is still there.
wluu 14y ago
Essentially a non-issue. But it is a funny message to get :) Here's the original tweet - https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824 https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824 It's been known for quite a while that Windows Phone 8 actually utilises the Windows NT kernel rather than the previous Windows CE based one, which was used by Windows Phone 7.x and Windows Mobile etc. I'd imagine this is just a case a generic error message (for this situation) that was coded with the assumption by the original developer(s) that it would always be a desktop based product. Also, check out Windows running on ARM photos in this old blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windo...

mtgx 14y ago

The blue screen of death jokes for Windows phones have suddenly turned into reality.

vy8vWJlco 14y ago
I sincerely hope the ones about heart monitors don't come true too.
- meaty 14y ago
  Actually a certain "critical care" Welch Allyn device magically got a switch from Windows CE to VxWorks a few years ago after some "incidents" apparently. I can't cite anything to prove this other than I know someone who worked for an agency who rented their kit out and it was gradually "upgraded" due to reliability problems.

The guy was flashing his phone and ran into issues. Kinda cool to see it using that much of the Windows code base (kernel and bootmanager atleast)

lostlogin 14y ago
That's a way less severe issue as this would hardly be a problem for the standard user then.
joenathan 14y ago
He may have been trying to flash Windows RT.

jonemo 14y ago

As so often when people tinker and hack, the guy who did this probably had no anticipation about how the media and normal people will interpret this photo. What sticks about this story is that Windows Phone will sometimes ask you - in monospace white writing - for a CD to be inserted. This one photo might have more negative marketing effect than any of their flashy Windows Phone ads on TV can make up for.

untog 14y ago
This one photo might have more negative marketing effect than any of their flashy Windows Phone ads on TV can make up for. No-one outside of tech blogs cares about this photo.

smilliken 14y ago

Imagine the surprise of the author(s) of this boot loader that this code would eventually be running on a cell phone.

JamesMcMinn 14y ago

The users was loading custom ROMs onto their device, something went wrong, and the phone displayed an error which it would otherwise never have shown. Not really much of a story, more an opportunity to poke fun at Windows.

ericclemmons 14y ago
That's really a shame. Similar to that story on how thieves stole only Apple devices from a Microsoft campus. People love to pile on to Microsoft, but it looks like, ever so slowly, since the Xbox launched there's some actual ingenuity and design within the company that's finally pushing through their old image. (If people would let it)
- Shorel 14y ago
  The Windows RT-Only Store is as much bad publicity as any old tale about MS mischief. They could have created a Steam-like all-kind-of-Windows-Apps store and sell Office, Adobe products, Autodesk products, Antivirus, development tools, games, etc, all in one place, and blew that chance hard. I hope Steam wins both in Windows and outside it (the Steam Box).

xorgar831 14y ago

Step number 2 is especially helpful: 2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next." Unix had a funny "not a typewriter" error message that eventually ended up in an Apple OS: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31349 http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31349

udp 14y ago
I've also had an error message along the lines of "cannot read from tape" when using tar(1) in OS X.
- SoftwareMaven 14y ago
  Well, tar is the Tape ARchiver, so that makes more sense. It just happens that everything is a file in unix, whether it's a file or a tape driver.
ysangkok 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter I think it will be hard to remove ENOTTY. It is documented differently now, but as you can see, the error message is still there.

wluu 14y ago

Essentially a non-issue. But it is a funny message to get :) Here's the original tweet - https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824 https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824 It's been known for quite a while that Windows Phone 8 actually utilises the Windows NT kernel rather than the previous Windows CE based one, which was used by Windows Phone 7.x and Windows Mobile etc. I'd imagine this is just a case a generic error message (for this situation) that was coded with the assumption by the original developer(s) that it would always be a desktop based product. Also, check out Windows running on ARM photos in this old blog post - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windo...