Bork!Bork!Bork! The bork desk has temporarily reopened during the festive period. The tech world might be having a nap on the sofa after one mince pie too many, but bork never sleeps.

Take this example of some digital signage at PizzaExpress. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader at Edinburgh airport, the screen occupies the space where customers might have once found a generic bit of printed or colored plastic.

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However, progress is progress, and every bit of space must now be occupied by migraine-inducing digital signage, capable of displaying whatever important messages the marketing machine thinks prospective consumers must see.

Including, in this case, the Windows desktop. Because there are few things more likely to lure a weary traveler into an emporium of pizza dough and tomato sauce than some forlorn icons and a reminder of the time when Windows Media Player ruled the roost.

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It's not clear exactly what has befallen the screen. Some of the icons reference ViPlex Express, a tool for managing digital signage. However, unless the software has a bork mode, or the establishment is seeking to attract the sort of Register reader who likes to snap shots of screens in distress, the lights are on, but nobody's home.

And then there is the tempting "test" file. The thumbnail isn't giving away many clues about its content - we hope that whatever it contains won't put anyone off their pizza or force a sad-faced engineer to do the walk of shame to HR.

The operating system itself is probably Windows 10, judging by the icons, and will, we're sure, either have been enrolled in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates program or be a version still supported since October.

We look forward to the next menu update. Joining the classic Margherita and American Hot will be Scottish Bork, with the famous Sloppy Giuseppe replaced by Slapdash IT. ®