As so often when people tinker and hack, the guy who did this probably had no anticipation about how the media and normal people will interpret this photo.<p>What sticks about this story is that Windows Phone will sometimes ask you - in monospace white writing - for a CD to be inserted. This one photo might have more negative marketing effect than any of their flashy Windows Phone ads on TV can make up for.
The users was loading custom ROMs onto their device, something went wrong, and the phone displayed an error which it would otherwise never have shown.<p>Not really much of a story, more an opportunity to poke fun at Windows.
Essentially a non-issue. But it is a funny message to get :)<p>Here's the original tweet - <a href="https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/rkkski/status/288956938778189824</a><p>It's been known for quite a while that Windows Phone 8 actually utilises the Windows NT kernel rather than the previous Windows CE based one, which was used by Windows Phone 7.x and Windows Mobile etc.<p>I'd imagine this is just a case a generic error message (for this situation) that was coded with the assumption by the original developer(s) that it would always be a desktop based product.<p>Also, check out Windows running on ARM photos in this old blog post - <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windo...</a>
Step number 2 is especially helpful:<p>2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."<p>Unix had a funny "not a typewriter" error message that eventually ended up in an Apple OS:
<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31349" rel="nofollow">http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31349</a>