Bork

Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death

BORK!BORK!BORK! Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD

Offbeat28 Dec 2025 | 17

SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update

Bork!Bork!Bork! Best not touch that screen, eh?

Offbeat27 Dec 2025 | 47

Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows

Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found

Offbeat23 Dec 2025 | 44

Microsoft blanks out BSODs on public displays with new ‘Digital Signage mode’

BORK is borked

OSes18 Nov 2025 | 44

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too

OSes01 Apr 2025 | 62

Honored guest Bork visits Warsaw, Poland

BORK!BORK!BORK! Microsoft will stop at nothing to advertise its services

Offbeat02 Jan 2025 | 19

Biz Daemon is too cool to respond to fans of his big screen work

BORK!BORK!BORK! If only all Android apps were so effortlessly stylish

Bootnotes26 Oct 2024 | 12

The amber glow of bork illuminates Brighton Station

BORK!BORK!BORK! The train on platform 4 is destined for networking hell

Off-Prem04 Sep 2024 | 48

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech

On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 116

Elvis may have left the building, but Windows remains very much on show

Bork!Bork!Bork! Just like the '68 Comeback Special, Bork has returned

Bootnotes24 Jan 2022 | 13

Bork ends where it began. At McDonald's, home of the finest bork product

12BoC Bork bless us, everyone

Bootnotes05 Jan 2022 | 10

France loves open source so much, even its cinema borks have Linux behind the scenes

12BoC The last time Ubuntu went to space ISS astronauts got menaced by CIMON*

Bootnotes04 Jan 2022 | 37

A kitchen splashbork on sale at the Cardiff IKEA

12BoC Keeping things consistent in the Pi department

Bootnotes03 Jan 2022 | 12

The Ghost of Windows Past haunts a street corner in Bermondsey

12BoC Woo... woo... don't forget to back up your files... woo...

Bootnotes02 Jan 2022 | 34

Going round in circles with Windows in Singapore

12BoC A mystery error message bedevils Mass Transit Passengers

Bootnotes01 Jan 2022 | 22

Some errors fill the screen. And some come from the .NET Framework

12BoC Go on. Click Continue. We dare you

Bootnotes31 Dec 2021 | 27

Too busy feasting on meatballs, Windows struggles to update itself in IKEA

12BoC Who is going to install this Daim patch?

Bootnotes30 Dec 2021 | 29

Low on passengers, low on memory: A bad day on the London Underground

12BoC Lucky that new Crossrail thing is late – who knows how Windows will cope?

Bootnotes29 Dec 2021 | 56

Windows takes a breather in London's Spitalfields

12BoC No, not that sort of Rust

Bootnotes28 Dec 2021 | 13

Please pay for parking – CMOS batteries don't buy themselves

12BoC Tesco parking screen reminds customers of the glory days of 2012

Bootnotes27 Dec 2021 | 69

Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going

12BoC I'll just pay the- OH MY GOD

Columnists26 Dec 2021 | 56

Not the kind of note you want to see fluttering from an ATM

12BoC This won't buy me beer

Columnists25 Dec 2021 | 34

Cruel and unusual IT fail upstages Megan Fox. Transformers: Windows in disguise

Bork!Bork!Bork! Check your outputs, kids

Bootnotes15 Nov 2021 | 21

Heart FM's borkfast show – a fine way to start your day

Jamie and Amanda have a new co-presenter to contend with

Bootnotes18 Oct 2021 | 25

Windows terminates here. Please remember to finish setting it up on arrival

Bork!Bork!Bork! Washington Metro admin has taken an early lunch

Bootnotes15 Oct 2021 | 25

Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E

Bork!Bork!Bork! Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see...

Bootnotes14 Oct 2021 | 19

Meatballs, Abba, and bork: 3 things Sweden is famous for

Bork!Bork!Bork! It's what The Chef would want

Bootnotes12 Oct 2021 | 16

Happy birthday, Microsoft Money: Here's a cashpoint calamity for Windows and .NET

Bork!Bork!Bork! Weird all Jorvik

Applications08 Oct 2021 | 17

A most uncivil display in New York's Civil Court

Bork!Bork!Bork! I fought the bork and the bork won

OSes06 Oct 2021 | 8

Confusion at Gare de Rennes as Windows shuffles off for a Gauloise

Bork!Bork!Bork! Je suis un bork star

Bootnotes04 Oct 2021 | 20

Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet

Bork!Bork!Bork! I'll show you 'highly targeted'

Bootnotes29 Sep 2021 | 70

Parking is expensive. It can cost an arm, a leg, and a Windows licence

Bork!Bork!Bork! Activate Windows and put up a parking lot

Bootnotes24 Sep 2021 | 11

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo

Bork!Bork!Bork! Up above the streets and houses, XP's flying high

Bootnotes23 Sep 2021 | 11

A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font

Bork!Bork!Bork! Come for the bork, stay for the burger

Bootnotes20 Sep 2021 | 16

Sometimes we all feel a bit like Shutting Down. So just imagine how tired Windows 7 is

Bork!Bork!Bork! So many stuck trains, so many cancellations. Giant blue screen of Nope, we salute you.

Bootnotes17 Sep 2021 | 10

Running on empty, out of battery, power draining... three things the UK government definitely isn't. Oh no

Bork!Bork!Bork! Video connected – check. Plugged into the mains? Er...

Bootnotes14 Sep 2021 | 15

Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! Stage fright? Or the knowledge that Windows is lurking behind you

Bootnotes10 Sep 2021 | 25

With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night

Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge

Bootnotes08 Sep 2021 | 13

Spraying a boot error up the bathroom wall

Bork!Bork!Bork! Taking the Pis in Paris

Bootnotes06 Sep 2021 | 16

Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows

Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft would like to know your location. Bedroom furniture or homewares?

Applications25 Aug 2021 | 36

Borking on the corner, watching the world go by

Bork!Bork!Bork! A Baltic bork in the Republic of Lithuania

Personal Tech24 Aug 2021 | 3

A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh

Bork!Bork!Bork! BSODs should be scary, not soothing

Bootnotes17 Aug 2021 | 28

Please do not touch the exhibits – or this tabletop Windows Boot Manager

Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft's OS once again where it shouldn't be

Bootnotes16 Aug 2021 | 8

Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Who needs pesky buttons when the Internet of Bork is here?

Bootnotes12 Aug 2021 | 62

Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device

Bork!Bork!Bork! An unexpected bork in the boarding area

Columnists11 Aug 2021 | 18

Never Knowingly Underborked: Double trouble at Southampton's John Lewis

Bork!Bork!Bork! Unless that's an ad for American Megatrends?

Bootnotes10 Aug 2021 | 9

Steam-powered computers: Retro cool or old and busted?

Bork!Bork!Bork! The silicon is weak, but the iron is strong

Bootnotes27 Jul 2021 | 29

Paid antivirus? On ads? Think of all the beer you could buy without that subscription

Bork!Bork!Bork! These are a few of our favourite things

Bootnotes19 Jul 2021 | 13

Who needs 'Bliss' in Teams when you can have the real thing on a Bristol bus?

Bork!Bork!Bork! If it ever escapes the boot loop, that is

Bootnotes13 Jul 2021 | 15

2021: A Bork Odyssey. Is it remake of Disney's The Black Hole or explorer.exe being shown the door?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to Cineworld in the leafy UK town of Harlow Essex

Bootnotes09 Jul 2021 | 17

NASA readies commands to switch on Hubble's back-up hardware

Observatory might be able to spot distant stars, but it can't hear a bunch of engineers holding their breath

Science07 Jul 2021 | 18

The black screen of BIOS borkage haunts Space Shuttle Discovery's new home

Bork!Bork!Bork! They can put a man on the Moon, but can't change the battery in this Dell?

Bootnotes07 Jul 2021 | 23

Black screens in Windows 11? Bork has seen it all before

Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to Madeira, autonomous region of Borkugal

Bootnotes05 Jul 2021 | 40

We hope this hotel has a nice spa because Windows sure looks like it needs some R&R

Bork!Bork!Bork! If you'd like to restart and try ag-

OSes29 Jun 2021 | 10

London Greenwich station: A reminder of former glories. Like Windows XP

Bork!Bork!Bork! Borkage haunts one of the oldest station buildings in the world

Bootnotes28 Jun 2021 | 43

Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign

Bork!Bork!Bork! Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows

Bootnotes21 Jun 2021 | 13