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Lance Ulanoff

Apple's cringy BSOD ad chooses the wrong Windows target

BSOD.

Apple's knucklehead businesspeople, The Underdogs, are back in another lengthy and riotous look at computing in the business world, this time with a recollection of one of Windows' darkest moments: CrowdStrike and the collapse of 8.5 million Windows PCs around the world.

The commercial, titled 'BSOD' and viewable today (October 7, 2025) on YouTube, is equal parts clever and cringy. It recounts the day The Underdog team attended Container Con and how most of the Windows PCs failed, ostensibly on July 19, 2024, with Blue Screens of Death bringing the entire tradeshow to a halt... with the exception of Team Underdogs, who were running Macs.

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