Microsoft made a splash of sorts at the Olympics opening ceremonies…

Sydney Morning Herald

Fortunately Stephen Hutcheon, the writer of the Sydney Morning Herald article, was helpful to point out:

The BSoD is a bit of an in-joke among geeks and is often used to poke fun at Microsoft's bug-prone Windows operating system.

However, my favorite point of the article was a comment from the Lenovo chairman…

Its Windows XP operating system was chosen to run on all PCs used by the organisers as well as being the operating system installed on PCs supplied by Lenovo Group, the computer maker that is one of the major sponsors of the 2008 Olympics.

Microsoft's newer operating system, Vista, was not chosen.

Lenovo chairman, Yang Yuanqing, was quoted as saying that because of the complexity of the IT functions at the Games, it was decided to not use the the more recent operating system. "If it's not stable, it could have some problems," he said.