It features a prominent emoticon sad face on the familiar blue expanse of sorrow. The new BSoD also delivers the simple message, "Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn't handle, and now it ...

The developer build of Windows 8 shows that Microsoft's next major operating system will have a new, and somewhat sad, blue screen of death.

Well, at least it's little less cutesy than the Sad Mac (though, no less infuriating). As with any version of Windows, the Metro-slathered Win 8 has one of those oh so familiar Blue Screen of ...