Scare the shit out of your friends or co-workers with Fakeupdate

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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Founder & board member, TNW

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Here’s a service that’s very fitting to put some life into your dull Monday morning. Fakeupdate.net lets you put up a Windows or OSX Update Screen on your friends and co-workers computer screens. It was launched a couple of months ago, and it is a miracle nobody at the TNW offices found it and made good use of it.

To make things even worse you can press enter to get an update error appropriate to the operating system you’re using.

Let the games begin…