IT team get the blues...

By Jenny McLeod, G2G3

The Olympics is always a colorful event. Yet, within this spectrum there is one color that the IT team would happily pass the entire games without seeing. That color is blue, the chosen shade of the Windows error screen. If an operational fault develops then this grim reaper is not slow to show face, and softpedia.com points out, “wherever Windows goes... the Blue Screen of Death is bound to follow”.

And follow it did. As veteran Chinese gymnast Li Ning was majestically suspended in the Bird's Nest, Windows XP failed to deliver and the BSOD appeared directly behind him during the opening ceremony. Luckily the error went largely unnoticed, but to witnesses it clearly illustrates the stability issues that have plagued Windows XP, even after the release of Service Pack 2. The photos of this can be seen here.

There are only four days left of the Beijing Olympics now. Let's just hope that the IT infrastructure continues to run smoothly and efficiently, and can shake of these blues once and for all.