As if the dreaded ‘Blue Screen of Death’ wasn’t enough, now it has been reported that some beta testers have enountered a new ‘Red Screen of Death’ in early versions of Longhorn.

The tale of RSOD spread furiously across the Web. Posters characterized the RSOD as the newer, more evil cousin of the current Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), which is displayed when Windows experiences a major error that will likely require a reboot to fix.
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When Longhorn ships, “it will behave like Windows does today” in terms of the type and color of the screen generated during a boot-failure error, he said.

So with Longhorn we’ll still be seeing red, but this time, literally.

Source: Microsoft-Watch