Offbeat

Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope

BORK!BORK!BORK! "Let's cross this one off your list" are words to strike fear into the hearts of many a Windows user, particularly when they appear on some Post Office digital signage.

Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader in East Dulwich, London, the screen is one of two public displays designed to entertain and inform customers waiting to be ignored by a member of staff.

The Post Office is a place where objects can be sent and forms completed or collected. It is normally identifiable by a queue of depressed citizens snaking toward (and sometimes beyond) the door, and an impressive ability to have not quite enough staff to ensure all available positions are open.

Here, Windows is thankfully relegated to serving up information rather than the all-important task of announcing available counters.…