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Apple Pokes Fun at Windows PCs in 'The Underdogs: BSOD'

Summary by Macworld
Macworld Apple has released “The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death),” a video short that skillfully pokes fun at a Microsoft problem from last year, when a serious Windows computer crash occurred due to a faulty CrowdStrike security update. On Windows, a severe crash results in a blue screen overtaking the screen, with information about possible causes displayed in white text. This has become known colloquially as the Blue Screen of Death (…
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The commercial released by Apple, called the Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), makes fun of a Microsoft error from last year when there was a serious Windows computer crash due to a faulty crowd strike security update. The legendary Blue Screen on Windows systems shows if the system is completely overloaded and crashing for whatever reasons: On the blue background on the screen you can see white information in white font information about …

In 2024, due to a buggy update from CrowdStrike, Windows PCs failed. Although the problem seems to be fixed, Apple is still using the events to make use of its own products in an advertising video compared to...

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pcgameshardware.de broke the news in on Thursday, October 9, 2025.
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