Sure to annoy IT people but those just need a line of text while the rest of the screen is free real estate for Micro$oft! Public BSODs tend to go viral too.

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    4 months ago

    dear user.

    thank you for your report.

    please be assured that even in the event of a bsod, windows will still report metrics back to microsoft so long as the system drive is operational for use as temporary storage of that data until the next successful windows boot.

    new OOB ad metrics reporting will also be added to intel ime and amd psp in future processors in order to further address your concern.

    -microsoft support

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      4 months ago

      It’s a joke, I know that the very existence of a bluescreen literally means that the processor has not hung but it has been detected that proceeding to run userspace code might result in undefined behavior. The hard drive remains in use but this relies on a subsequent successful Windows boot (good luck). In case of bootlooping kiosks, the company’s IT crew will probably just pull useful data off the drive and revert it to the known good installation.

      If the BSOD happens on a running PC, networking will probably continue working. With a bootloop, it depends on whether the network stack initialization has progressed far enough before the crash.