OFFBEAT Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
OFFBEAT Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun
OFFBEAT The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails Would you like an error with your terror?
os platforms Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 This elevator is headed for floor Bork
os platforms Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?
OFFBEAT Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
OFFBEAT Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
offbeat Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
OFFBEAT Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about When art reflects modern realities
offbeat XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway A blast from the past greets commuters
offbeat Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can
Offbeat Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft
Offbeat InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder
OSes Windows Firewall stands between you and greasy delight You don't really want that entering your system, do you?
Offbeat Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope
Offbeat Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags
Offbeat In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day
Offbeat Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn
Offbeat Would you like fries with that terminal? Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't
Offbeat Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start
Offbeat Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do Fresh and healthy, just like Windows 11 isn't
OSes Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverability
Bootnotes When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food
Bootnotes To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days
Offbeat Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes
Applications Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own
Offbeat Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're going
Offbeat Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing Analog curio nestled between fax and typewriter - this is a very different definition of 'legacy support'
Security Healthcare security: Write login details on whiteboard, hope for the best You told me not to write it on a Post-it...
Offbeat Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz Passenger info display takes scenic detour via desktop and pending updates
Offbeat Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station It must be that fresh mountain air
Offbeat ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach
OSes Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork Supermarket printer error gets holiday off to a shabby start
Offbeat Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux? Open source operating system fans, your time has come
Offbeat ATM flashes a port or two for the enterprising hacker Connection secured. Not so sure about the installation
Offbeat Crossrail? More like Borkrail... A thoroughly modern piece of public transport infrastructure deserves a thoroughly modern bork
Offbeat Mall display crashes the vibe with Windows activation nag Digital signage is great, until it isn't
Offbeat Windows 2000 still earning its keep running a rail ticket machine in Portugal 'Unsupported' doesn't mean 'unused'
Offbeat Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error The queue might move on, but the software never did
OSes Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation Digital screen snafu or satirical comment on Microsoft's licensing policies?
Offbeat Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD
Offbeat SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update Best not touch that screen, eh?
OSes Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too
Offbeat Honored guest Bork visits Warsaw, Poland Microsoft will stop at nothing to advertise its services
Bootnotes Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work If only all Android apps were so effortlessly stylish
Off-Prem The amber glow of bork illuminates Brighton Station The train on platform 4 is destined for networking hell
On-Prem Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech
Bootnotes Elvis may have left the building, but Windows remains very much on show Just like the '68 Comeback Special, Bork has returned
Bootnotes Bork ends where it began. At McDonald's, home of the finest bork product Bork bless us, everyone
Bootnotes France loves open source so much, even its cinema borks have Linux behind the scenes The last time Ubuntu went to space ISS astronauts got menaced by CIMON*
Bootnotes A kitchen splashbork on sale at the Cardiff IKEA Keeping things consistent in the Pi department
Bootnotes The Ghost of Windows Past haunts a street corner in Bermondsey Woo... woo... don't forget to back up your files... woo...
Bootnotes Going round in circles with Windows in Singapore A mystery error message bedevils Mass Transit Passengers
Bootnotes Some errors fill the screen. And some come from the .NET Framework Go on. Click Continue. We dare you
Bootnotes Too busy feasting on meatballs, Windows struggles to update itself in IKEA Who is going to install this Daim patch?
Bootnotes Low on passengers, low on memory: A bad day on the London Underground Lucky that new Crossrail thing is late – who knows how Windows will cope?
Bootnotes Please pay for parking – CMOS batteries don't buy themselves Tesco parking screen reminds customers of the glory days of 2012
Columnists Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going I'll just pay the- OH MY GOD
Bootnotes Cruel and unusual IT fail upstages Megan Fox. Transformers: Windows in disguise Check your outputs, kids
Bootnotes Heart FM's borkfast show – a fine way to start your day Jamie and Amanda have a new co-presenter to contend with
Bootnotes Windows terminates here. Please remember to finish setting it up on arrival Washington Metro admin has taken an early lunch
Bootnotes Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see...
Applications Happy birthday, Microsoft Money: Here's a cashpoint calamity for Windows and .NET Weird all Jorvik
Bootnotes Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet I'll show you 'highly targeted'
Bootnotes Parking is expensive. It can cost an arm, a leg, and a Windows licence Activate Windows and put up a parking lot
Bootnotes Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo Up above the streets and houses, XP's flying high
Bootnotes A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font Come for the bork, stay for the burger
Bootnotes Sometimes we all feel a bit like Shutting Down. So just imagine how tired Windows 7 is So many stuck trains, so many cancellations. Giant blue screen of Nope, we salute you.
Bootnotes Running on empty, out of battery, power draining... three things the UK government definitely isn't. Oh no Video connected – check. Plugged into the mains? Er...
Bootnotes Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork Stage fright? Or the knowledge that Windows is lurking behind you
Bootnotes With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge
Applications Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows Microsoft would like to know your location. Bedroom furniture or homewares?
Personal Tech Borking on the corner, watching the world go by A Baltic bork in the Republic of Lithuania
Bootnotes Please do not touch the exhibits – or this tabletop Windows Boot Manager Microsoft's OS once again where it shouldn't be
Bootnotes Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked) Who needs pesky buttons when the Internet of Bork is here?
Columnists Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device An unexpected bork in the boarding area
Bootnotes 2021: A Bork Odyssey. Is it remake of Disney's The Black Hole or explorer.exe being shown the door?
Columnists If HAL did digital signage. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that...
Columnists Nobody expects the borkish bank-wisition: When I said I wanted some notes from the ATM, I never thought I'd see...
Bootnotes We've finally hit Peak Bork: Microsoft man reveals home-grown welcome back BSOD at Redmond HQ
Applications Use Windows and POS in the same sentence... Yes, that's right: Point of Sale. What were you thinking?
Bootnotes Delayed, overbudget and broken. Of course Microsoft's finest would be found in NASA's Orion
Bootnotes Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a very unhappy Windows installation
Bootnotes Borkem ipsum: Supermarket gifts Thailand a tech fail that will echo down the millennia – and probably choke a turtle
Bootnotes Freezing in Newcastle? You're not alone: For one lonesome creature, the world stopped on 31 Dec 2020
Bootnotes Waterloo! Windows defeated, your sign is screwed. Waterloo! Promise to bork you forevermore
Bootnotes Sun, sea and sad signage: And lo, they saw a shining light in the sky... oh, it's a BIOS error
Bootnotes Next day delivery a bit of a pain? We have just the thing... nestled deep in the terms and conditions
Bootnotes Bristol's bus stops can run Chrome and Internet Explorer, but no, Windows and public transport do not mix well
Bootnotes Behold the drive-thru of the California Highway Patrol: Fry me a river, has 'CHIPS' stopped working again?
Bootnotes Windows 10 installation shows shopping centre its sad face – the natural response to finding out you're in Peterborough
OSes Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious
Bootnotes IKEA Croydon (FYI: that's a place in outer London, not a type of DIY cabinet) likes things in pairs, from chimneys to bork
Bootnotes Fancy a steaming portion of Kentucky Fried Bork? A fingerlickin' flub that's pure poultry in motion
Bootnotes Typical. Museum of London Docklands display would be ready to set sail were it not for no-show cast member
Bootnotes It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes
Bootnotes Relics of the past to be found in Oxford: A medieval friary, a Saxon wall, and... Windows 7
OSes Tesco self-service separates innocent Reg reader from beer after collapsing into heap of Windows dialog boxes
Bootnotes Upside down, you turn me, you're giving bork instinctively: Firefox flips as a train connection is missed
Bootnotes When Irish screens are borking: Ticketing trip-up for Dublin-based Windows 10 IoT terminal, but at least it's not XP
OSes Aw, Snap! But you should see the other guy – they're in dire need of a good file system consistency check
Software Someone please have mercy on this poorly Ubuntu parking machine that has been force-fed maudlin autotuned tripe
Bootnotes How do you feel about single-use plastics? OK, interesting. Now tell us your views on surprise Windows updates
OSes Well, what are we waiting for? Three weeks later, Windows Embedded Standard 7 still didn't have the answer
Personal Tech Did you see that ludicrous display last night? Bork pays a visit to London's Silicon Roundabout
Bootnotes See you after the commercial breakdown: Cert expiry error message more entertaining than the usual advert tripe
Bootnotes All in all it's just another bork on the wall: For pity's sake, begs signage, climb onto the pub's roof and boot me up
Bootnotes Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!
Bootnotes If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal
Bootnotes An unfortunate bit of product placement for Microsoft as Liverpool celebrates winning some silverware
Bootnotes What does London's number 65 bus have to hide? OS caught on camera setting fire to '22,000 illegal file(s)!!'
OSes Travel-sick Windows needing a Systemwiederherstellung would be in Germany, right? Austria? Not necessarily
Bootnotes The Edinburgh Fringe festival isn't happening this year, but that won't stop a digital sign doing its own comedy routine
Bootnotes We're going underground, and this time it's not an inebriated banker crapping themselves, but Transport for London
Bootnotes It is unclear why something designed to pump fuel into a car needs an ad-spewing computer strapped to it, but here we are
Bootnotes 'Non-commercial use only'? Oopsie. You can't get much more commercial than a huge digital billboard over Piccadilly
Bootnotes There are always two sides to every story – except this one, which is just a big billboard borked in all directions
OSes Virtually – no – actually borked: We'd slap ailing ATM's 'OK' button but it's probably against government guidance