Microsoft is rolling out a handful of big new features and changes to Windows 11 in the next month, including new AI features ...

Windows Insiders can try out the new BSOD in test versions of the Beta, Dev, and Canary Channels, but it will appear as a green screen in these test builds before it’s eventually shipped as a ...

Windows has killed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), replacing it with the Black Screen of Death (also BSOD). The original blue screen, which also featured a sad-face emoticon, has been around for ...

The new BSOD will start with a simplified user interface that’s intended to make troubleshooting easier. There will also be a new option for Windows 11 24H2 called “Quick Machine Recovery.” ...

A few years later, I look at the Blue Screen of Death more fondly. Yes, it's annoying to see one, but it's also part of the Windows identity. People instantly know what a BSOD is.

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 ...

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.

SEE ALSO: CrowdStrike announces Microsoft outage workaround. How to deal with the Blue Screen of Death. But what exactly is a BSOD, and what can you do about it? We're here to help, so you don't ...

A: The Blue Screen of Death—often shortened to BSOD —is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything to avoid bigger problems.

The 0xc00002e3 Blue Screen occurs due to the failure in the initialization of the Security Accounts Manager (SAM), which is part of the Registry.

It looks like this new BSOD will be rolled out to the existing Windows 11 version 24H2 soon, and we’ve reached out to Microsoft for more information on whether it’s switching to a black screen ...