Instead of a blue backdrop, the BSOD will instead have a black background. At least calling it the Black Screen of Death means we don't need to change the acronym.

Now, after 33 years, Microsoft is retiring the Blue Screen of Death, which has become one of its most recognizable and anxiety‑inducing features. With the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 release later ...

We’ve known this cobalt harbinger of trouble for a long time. When the BSOD first appeared in the 1985 version of Windows 1.0, it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes; Germany was two ...

Windows users have dreaded the BSOD for the past 30-odd years, and after the CrowdStrike outage, Microsoft seems keen on making amends to prevent such situations from arising in the future.

When the BSOD first appeared in the 1985 version of Windows 1.0, it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes; Germany was two separate countries; HTML code had not been created; Mark Zuckerberg was ...

The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), a sight that has long signaled critical system errors for Windows users, is reportedly getting a dramatic makeover. According to a report in The Verge ...

Microsoft is changing the traditional Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows 11 to a newly designed black version. We first reported on this in April, but the new screen is now rolling out.

Microsoft has released an emergency Windows 11 24H2 update to address an incompatibility issue triggering restarts with blue screen of death (BSOD) errors on systems with Easy Anti-Cheat.