Word Pad Sucks

9:38 May 29th, 2009 | Notes

Have you ever installed a release candidate version of windows, not bothered to install a full word processor, started using Word Pad to type up your music composition process diary then have the entire OS crash and then get the blue screen of death?

I have!

I was writing my process diary during debating training (yeah, not much actually happens) when, all of a sudden, without warning the screen flickered and gave me the classic blue screen of death then restarted. I didn’t have time to react. No frozen screen or cursor or anything!

What the hell happened?! This is Windows 7! It’s not supposed to do that! It’s supposed to work properly!

The up side is that once it had dumped the memory, it quickly rebooted. My work wasn’t there but at least it went to the trouble of restarting for me. In all honesty, I wasn’t that annoyed, I had only done about three lines of work. But I’m still kind of curious as to why the hell it happened.