A recent report in the New York Times details a myriad issues that led up to the eventual explosion that started the mess known as the ” BP oil spill ,” but aside from obvious mishandling of warnings and red flags, one particular issue was troubling those working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig long before April 20th. Mike Williams, the rig’s chief electronics technician, has come forward with a multitude of icky details surrounding the negligence that was involved in the catastrophe, with the one most germane to our discussion being the following: “For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew called the Blue Screen of Death .” Williams continued, noting that “it would just turn blue,” with “no data coming through.” Of course, it’s not as if BSODs are totally uncommon out in the working world — Microsoft’s Windows powers the vast majority of systems that corporations rely on daily — but this one rubs just a wee bit differently

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Blue Screen of Death amongst issues that plagued Deepwater Horizon

The latest Microsoft operating system may be selling seven copies a second , but it’s no match for the behemoth Windows XP, still the most popular OS in the world despite recent nefarious attempts (we kid) to invoke spontaneous shutdowns , slow hard drives and trigger blue screens . In fact, a Microsoft exec admitted today that practically three-quarters of business computers still run the nine-year-old OS on hardware averaging 4.4 years old, and Computerworld ’s now reporting Microsoft will extend XP’s lifespan through 2020 (you read that right) as a result.

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Microsoft says 74 percent of work PCs still use Windows XP, extends downgrade rights until 2020

While JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Chase Mobile iPhone app update: picture your paycheck deposited, and it’s there

Had enough gaming news today? Hardly

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Live at Sony’s E3 2010 keynote!

That Nintendo announced the 3DS was not a surprise — that they had a couple-dozen of these things to try out, that was. We elbowed our way to the front of the line to try one out, and the effect is actually not bad

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Nintendo 3DS in the flesh and hands-on! (updated with video!)

Sony’s certainly been fairly candid when discussing the PSP Go in the past, but SCEE CEO Andrew House went quite a bit further than usual in discussing the download-only handheld with MCV recently. When asked if he considered the PSP Go to be a success, he responded by saying that it was “introduced in a mature lifecycle to learn more about what the consumer wanted,” and that Sony has “definitely learned a lot,” adding that “one of the reasons we launched PSP Go was to understand where that consumer behavior was going.” He further went on to say that Sony was “getting signals from consumers that this was the kind of device that they wanted,” but says that Sony needs to “recognize that consumers like their packaged media library.” Does that mean a return to physical media for the eventual PSP 2

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Sony’s Andrew House: PSP Go launched in part to ‘learn more about what the consumer wanted’

Well, this is just great timing . What we’re looking at here is supposedly a Sony Ericsson smartphone, which seems to sport a five-inch screen and a hinged slide-out keyboard like the HTC Shift and the Eking S515

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Sony Ericsson prepping a 5-inch Android phone with QWERTY keyboard?

Well, we’ve got some good news and some less good news for potential PSP Go owners.

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Sony confirms ten free game offer for UK PSP Go buyers, North America gets less awesome deal

Look, we’ve no qualms with keyboards — Elton John is permanently embedded in our playlists, it’ll be the first instrument we teach our robotic children, and it’s easily the most underrated part of Justin Bieber’s spectacularness.

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Rock Band 3 purportedly gaining keytar peripheral, infinite amounts of our love

Three years ago, a certain obiwan22222 wowed us when he played Wii on his PSP (with a little help from Sony’s LocationFree technology). For his next trick, our man has done the same thing on an iPod touch

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Modder transmits Wii games to iPod touch, which isn’t really as fun as it sounds (video)