Apple has launched “The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Display screen of Demise),” a video quick that skillfully pokes enjoyable at a Microsoft drawback from final 12 months, when a severe Home windows laptop crash occurred resulting from a defective CrowdStrike safety replace.
On Home windows, a extreme crash ends in a blue display screen overtaking the display screen, with details about attainable causes displayed in white textual content. This has turn out to be identified colloquially because the Blue Display screen of Demise (BSOD). Most often, the one factor that helps is a restart, if that’s sufficient. Previously, it was comparatively frequent to need to reinstall the Home windows working system fully.
In my very own expertise, nonetheless, this infrequently occurs anymore. Nonetheless, it does occur, as within the huge case CrowdStrike, and Apple used this as motivation to make enjoyable of the competitors from Redmond.
Excessive-caliber {and professional}
The eight-minute video may be discovered on Apple’s YouTube channel (it’s additionally after this paragraph, if you wish to watch it). The manufacturing worth shows the professionalism that Apple has developed by way of its Apple TV+ streaming service to provide quick movies like this. A few of it’s a little paying homage to the multi-award-winning Apple TV+ present, The Studio.
[Spoiler alert.] The Underdogs, the 4 principal characters who’ve already appeared in a number of “Apple at Work” movies, are determined to trace down Trev Smith at Container Con. Trev can be the ticket to gigantic gross sales. However the competitors–who makes use of Home windows PCs–is making nice strides in wooing traders, till their complete Home windows system fails. On the finish, The Underdogs are feeling beneficiant and hand out Mac minis to make the world a greater place. Apple demonstrates its aplomb by ending the quick with the phrases “There’s no safety like Mac safety.”
The video is a enjoyable watch. The quick doesn’t lack for cross-promotional bits. For instance, a picture of Severance actor Tramell Tillman makes a short look in a fast montage. So followers of that present would possibly need to give it a watch—even when they aren’t utilizing a Mac.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macwelt and was translated and localized from German.
