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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    They can barely show useful information on that screen, how they can show ads?

    For example, the qr code is completely useless - you would expect to send the user to a page that explains the problem or even just search the error string on Bing, but no, it sends to a placeholder page that doesn’t say anything useful

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      There is no profit motive in making bluescreens more useful.

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      That’s where the innovation could happen. It could take users to a page that prompts them to download Microsoft Edge for mobile and then does nothing else