Flickering screens turn Microsoft Surface Books into Microsoft Surface paperweights (Ruh-roh!)

The Register ^ | Oct 28, 2015 | Shaun Nichols

[roadcat]

“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

Nice screensaver you got there, Microsoft! Microsoft fanbois would say they're first over Apple with a new feature. Gotta admit you can't get that kind of screensaver on an iPad. LOL!

[roadcat]

One of Microsoft’s engineers in China said “Make dis go right!” to another Chinese engineer. So the second engineer told the crew “Okey-dokey, disco lights it is!.

[Steely Tom]

When you go somewhere where everything is "free", it means you're not the CUSTOMER, you are the PRODUCT.

Look around to see who is paying for you to be there. They just bought you.

Yup. Figured that out thirty years ago when I was sitting through commercials while watching TV.

[The Working Man]

I’ve noticed the same thing on my Windows 7 laptop since the last patch push.

[CapnJack]

Ruh-roh is right.

We have a order for one of the new Surface Pros now at work to see how they will work in our Clean Room for Production Order Confirmations (Process step completions) in our SAP system.

We need these so we can plug in a blue-tooth device and have our people use a wireless scanner to scan in the barcodes of the components they are using to build assemblies (stop the fat-fingering process of Batch/Serial numbers).

This thing better not be flickering all over the place or we’ll have to drop the project.

[Moltke]

That gif doesn’t look like it’s showing real time. Sped up? Composit?

[trebb]

“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

LOL! Having taught many secure networking classes, we started calling such things from Microsoft "undocumented features" about 15 years ago.

[moose07]

For the Paper Weight of your dreams: US$1,499.00 to US$3,199.00
Excuse me whilst i go over here and snigger quietly to myself.
The Flickering Screen effect took months to get right,now everybody is moaning! Sheesh. :)

[tacticalogic]

They’re just holding it wrong.

[dayglored]

> They’re just holding it wrong.

Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are.

Good one!

[GingisK]

If they can no longer handle a mouse click, they surely won’t be able to handle graphics hardware.

[dayglored]

> That gif doesn’t look like it’s showing real time. Sped up? Composit?

I think it's real time. From the article, here's the link to the video the GIF was converted from: video on OneDrive

[dayglored]

> I’ve noticed the same thing on my Windows 7 laptop since the last patch push.

Oh crap, that's not good.

[dayglored]

> “Okey-dokey, disco lights it is!.

Disco lights... I like it... :-)

[Moltke]

Thanks, that’s better. Yep, looks real-time.

[The Working Man]

I did a full reboot and it’s stopped for now. Crossing my fingers though.

[rockrr]

The people I work for used to purchase port replicators (dockstations) but they’re expensive and, with model changes that make docks obsolete, a challenge to keep current.

So one of the managers decided to go to 3rd party “universal” docks. I’ve found that the one the chose does this exact behavior from time to time. When it manifests itself all I can do is unplug and go back to the laptop display.

Ain’t technology wunnerful?

[Grampa Dave]

For the Paper Weight of your dreams: US $1,499.00 to US $3,199.00.

BOL!

[Grampa Dave]

Does that price include the damn blue circle showing that your windows 10 pc after the latest update is really really slow logging on the internet?

[tacticalogic]

Oh crap, that's not good.

Actually, that is good. It means the problem is software, and not hardware. You can't fix hardware with a patch.