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Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

go.theregister.com·Richard Speed·about 1 month ago
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Bork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed? For Register reader Andy Bailey, it's Windows showing its face in the gift shop of an Alton Towers ghost train. Yes, the image might be a bit wobble-inducing, but that Windows Explorer error? Truly horrifying. And that taskbar – it's probably Windows 10 or perhaps Windows 8. Certainly, the stuff of nightmares as far as Microsoft is concerned. The operating system that refused to die (click to enlarge) Alton Towers is a UK theme park, notable for the introduction of the Corkscrew steel roller coaster in 1980. Bailey told us the ride he was on had originally been known as Duel, but "is now more of a standard ghost train." For the uninitiated, a ghost train in this context is a relatively tame dark ride in which animatronic ghoulies wave at passengers and spooky stuff happens. "No need to shoot anything these days," Bailey went on.…

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