Bork

Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel

Bork!Bork!Bork! Ah oui, mais est-ce de l'art?

OSes24 Feb 2021 | 41

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a very unhappy Windows installation

Bork!Bork!Bork! The last attempt to resume your country failed. Would you like to try again?

Bootnotes23 Feb 2021 | 12

The next departure leaves in... have you thought about a Microsoft 365 subscription?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Waiting for a bus while welcoming Windows

Bootnotes10 Feb 2021 | 21

A Microsoft bork at the heart of The Oracle? Whatever next?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Going shopping? Hope your pockets are deep enough

Bootnotes09 Feb 2021 | 14

Borkem ipsum: Supermarket gifts Thailand a tech fail that will echo down the millennia – and probably choke a turtle

Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's bork is brought to you by the keys ctrl, c and v

Bootnotes05 Feb 2021 | 32

Very little helps: Tesco serves up 3-for-1 borkage special to self-scanning Tesco shoppers

Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows puts on a surprise show at UK retailer

Bootnotes29 Jan 2021 | 36

Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur: Expect an ad, get a bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork bork acka-lacka bork bork

Bootnotes28 Jan 2021 | 22

Freezing in Newcastle? You're not alone: For one lonesome creature, the world stopped on 31 Dec 2020

Bork!Bork!Bork! The Natwest ATM of woe says no, bleats a plaintive: Børk!

Bootnotes25 Jan 2021 | 15

Waterloo! Windows defeated, your sign is screwed. Waterloo! Promise to bork you forevermore

Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft's finest suffers decisive defeat

Bootnotes12 Jan 2021 | 25

Canadian Windows demands a jolly good bit of validating

Bork!Bork!Bork! Somewhere there is always an IT pro who warned this might happen

OSes06 Jan 2021 | 16

Beware the ghost of operating systems past: In which our hero is visited by an old friend

12BoC A reminder that XP was both frugal and prone to falling over

OSes05 Jan 2021 | 16

It's just a pair of arrows. What could be more innocent than that?

12BoC Crossing the LogoWatch and Borkage streams: A Bork averted

On-Prem04 Jan 2021 | 18

Confessions at a Christmas do: 'That time I took down an entire neighbourhood'

12BoC For whom the return key tolls

Networks03 Jan 2021 | 38

Pick an end, any end: Lost that critical Christmas cable? We know how you feel

12BoC 'You are fettered,' said Scrooge, trembling. 'Tell me why?'

Bootnotes02 Jan 2021 | 7

Sun, sea and sad signage: And lo, they saw a shining light in the sky... oh, it's a BIOS error

12BoC Santas sled of bork comes to Lanzarote

Bootnotes01 Jan 2021 | 11

All I want for Christmas is cash: Welsh ATMs are unbeatable. Or unbootable. Something like that

12BOC Carpark sorrow as Windows failed to cough booty

OSes31 Dec 2020 | 33

No amount of Glasgow handshaking will revive this borked kiosk

12BoC To pay for parking you must first sign in to Windows 10

Bootnotes29 Dec 2020 | 41

What's that lurking behind the borked face of finance? Windows, of course

Bork!Bork!Bork! Rule number one of sausage club: never ask what goes into the sausage

OSes22 Dec 2020 | 21

Next day delivery a bit of a pain? We have just the thing... nestled deep in the terms and conditions

Bork!Bork!Bork! For those teeny, tiny, migraine-inducing nuts and bolts

Bootnotes08 Dec 2020 | 24

Windows on Wheels is back, though the truck has come to a standstill, much like the OS

Bork!Bork!Bork! Not sure what it's supposed be saying but it probably isn't 0x00000050

Bootnotes07 Dec 2020 | 18

Wireless screen in estate agent window just begging for someone to fill it with mischief

Bork!Bork!Bork! At last, a chance for a random phone-toting passer-by to show their quality

Bootnotes04 Dec 2020 | 21

Bristol's bus stops can run Chrome and Internet Explorer, but no, Windows and public transport do not mix well

Bork!Bork!Bork! Bus stop / Bus goes / What's crashed? / Windows

Bootnotes02 Dec 2020 | 20

Behold the drive-thru of the California Highway Patrol: Fry me a river, has 'CHIPS' stopped working again?

Bork!Bork!Bork! You didn't want fries with that, did you?

Bootnotes30 Nov 2020 | 31

Mall of duty: Black Ops. No, you're not a customer, you're just an ad audience metric

Bork!Bork!Bork! Quis custodiet ipsos bork-es?

Bootnotes25 Nov 2020 | 17

Software running on demo licence? At least one patty pusher is Lovin' It

Bork!Bork!Bork! The last time we saw one of these was in February. Things haven't gone well since then

Bootnotes20 Nov 2020 | 12

Windows 10 installation shows shopping centre its sad face – the natural response to finding out you're in Peterborough

Bork!Bork!Bork! Watch as we effortlessly segue from BSODs to hovertrains

Bootnotes17 Nov 2020 | 21

Need a hobby for lockdown? Perhaps check out the CMOS battery

Bork!Bork!Bork! There are no tags today, but there will always be bork

Bootnotes12 Nov 2020 | 11

Windows 10 quite literally projects its deepest, darkest fears on to New Zealand

Bork!Bork!Bork! It may have escaped the worse of coronavirus, but no one is immune to bork

Bootnotes09 Nov 2020 | 9

Super-antique-fragile-and-it's-XP-alidocious, even though the sight of it is something quite atrocious

Bork!Bork!Bork! A most uneXPected visitor: Windows cling-on spotted by Reg reader Discovery crew member

OSes05 Nov 2020 | 48

Remember 2013? This coffee machine does: If I could turn back time – I'd reboot this PC

Bork!Bork!Bork! I'd take back that bork that hurt you, or drink tea....

Bootnotes30 Oct 2020 | 30

SNAFU: Clairvoyant train brings warning of what was coming down the line for 2020

Bork!Bork!Bork! Situation: The New Normal?

Bootnotes27 Oct 2020 | 24

IKEA Croydon (FYI: that's a place in outer London, not a type of DIY cabinet) likes things in pairs, from chimneys to bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! The site may be getting on a bit, but the Windows fail is bang up to date

Bootnotes26 Oct 2020 | 25

Fancy a steaming portion of Kentucky Fried Bork? A fingerlickin' flub that's pure poultry in motion

Bork!Bork!Bork! Greasy goodness plays havoc with a PC's disk

Bootnotes23 Oct 2020 | 24

Got an irritating itch you just can't scratch? That'll be Windows wanting an update

Bork!Bork!Bork! No, we're a chemist. We don't sell that sort of patch.

OSes21 Oct 2020 | 13

Rambo: First Bork. Turns out John Rambo is no match for a bad CMOS checksum

Bork!Bork!Bork! To survive a war, you gotta become war. Yes, that's a real quote from the movie. Quality

Bootnotes19 Oct 2020 | 29

When you gaze long enough into the bork, the bork will gaze back into you

Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork, bork, bork on the Autobahn

Bootnotes16 Oct 2020 | 21

Remember the days when signs were signs and operating systems didn't need constant patching?

Bork!Bork!Bork! The signage may be borked, but the Swedish meatballs are steaming

OSes12 Oct 2020 | 35

Typical. Museum of London Docklands display would be ready to set sail were it not for no-show cast member

Bork!Bork!Bork! A fascinating exhibition of historic artefacts – and that's just the obsolete software

Bootnotes08 Oct 2020 | 8

It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes

Bork!Bork!Bork! Honey, I Misconfigured the Firewall

Bootnotes07 Oct 2020 | 34

What is it about McDonald's, cultural black holes, and not being able to make tech work?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Get your kicks on, er, the A12

Bootnotes05 Oct 2020 | 31

Key-cutting machine borked sideways after visit from the BSOD fairy locks things down

Bork!Bork!Bork! Under 3 minutes? Not today

Bootnotes01 Oct 2020 | 44

G'day mate, I'll take two tinnies, a packet of Tim Tams, some Vegemite, and a bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! Do you come from a bork down under?

Bootnotes29 Sep 2020 | 22

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Bork!Bork!Bork! No flight info, no adverts, just blackness...

OSes23 Sep 2020 | 39

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

Bork!Bork!Bork! Flushed out

Bootnotes18 Sep 2020 | 44

Relics of the past to be found in Oxford: A medieval friary, a Saxon wall, and... Windows 7

Bork!Bork!Bork! Shopping paradise forgot to pay for more support

Bootnotes17 Sep 2020 | 17

Tesco self-service separates innocent Reg reader from beer after collapsing into heap of Windows dialog boxes

Bork!Bork!Bork! Is that... XP? Can't be – venerable OS expired last year

OSes15 Sep 2020 | 25

How about a lovely processor thermal trip? Hot day in Italy brings out the banking bork

Bork!Bork!Bork! The only lockdown excursion we'll be taking - courtesy of some heated hardware

Bootnotes11 Sep 2020 | 5

Bork, Beer and Breweries: Three of our favourite things

Bork!Bork!Bork! The pubs may be problematic, but the bork is bountiful at Tennent's

Bootnotes10 Sep 2020 | 17

Upside down, you turn me, you're giving bork instinctively: Firefox flips as a train connection is missed

Bork!Bork!Bork! Respectfully, I say to thee... I'm aware that you're borking

Bootnotes08 Sep 2020 | 31

Ghost of Windows past spotted haunting Yorkshire railway station

Bork!Bork!Bork! WoOoO! Log me iiiin... Press CTRL-ALT-DELEeEeTE

OSes07 Sep 2020 | 20

Borking all over the world: At home or abroad, you're never more than 6ft from a BSOD

Bork!Bork!Bork! The next train is headed to... oh dear

Bootnotes02 Sep 2020 | 20

When Irish screens are borking: Ticketing trip-up for Dublin-based Windows 10 IoT terminal, but at least it's not XP

Bork!Bork!Bork! Felled by an upside-down student card, apparently

Bootnotes01 Sep 2020 | 17

Aw, Snap! But you should see the other guy – they're in dire need of a good file system consistency check

Bork!Bork!Bork! Behold the stability and efficiency of a switch to Linux

OSes20 Aug 2020 | 26

Someone please have mercy on this poorly Ubuntu parking machine that has been force-fed maudlin autotuned tripe

Bork!Bork!Bork! Failing in Falkirk

Software19 Aug 2020 | 42

How do you feel about single-use plastics? OK, interesting. Now tell us your views on surprise Windows updates

Bork!Bork!Bork! But please be aware this is a family museum

Bootnotes17 Aug 2020 | 22

Well, what are we waiting for? Three weeks later, Windows Embedded Standard 7 still didn't have the answer

Bork!Bork!Bork! The Register Theatre Company presents: Waiting for Windows

OSes14 Aug 2020 | 51