Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about

**TL;DR:** Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about

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BORK! "The Scream" by Edvard Munch is an iconic painting, so it somewhat appropriate that a display in a museum dedicated to the artist shows an error likely to elicit the same response from many a Windows user: a Microsoft account recovery screen. Spotted by Paul, a Register reader at the Munch Museum in Oslo, the screen shows what appears to be Google Chrome attempting to display a page that requires a Microsoft account to access.

For whatever reason – perhaps a password has been forgotten – an account recovery screen is visible rather than information more suited to the museum. It's enough to elicit a horrified shriek from a user seeking authenticated content. Not unlike the artist's work more than a century earlier. According to the museum, the motif is "a universal symbol of anxiety," not unlike the trepidation that accompanies modern authentication. The painting likely originated from an evening stroll Munch took, during which he had a strong reaction to a sunset.

He attempted to come to terms with it in words and images, which is where the iconic "Scream" motif comes from. Munch produced several versions of the image, and the museum keeps three in rotation to minim

Source: The Register

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