Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t killing off the Blue Screen of Death because the company has solved the problem of unexpected crashes and restarts. The BSOD screen will still exist on Windows ...

Microsoft is scrapping its iconic blue screen of death, known for appearing during unexpected restarts on Windows computers. The company revealed a new black iteration in a blog post.

The update is expected for Windows 11 24H2 users soon. The Blue Screen of Death, or BSOD, has been a part of Windows since Windows 3.0 launched in 1990.

But according to Microsoft employee Raymond Chen, the actual “blue screen of death” launched in 1993 on Windows NT when the “system is unrecoverably dead at this point.” Also, a version of the black ...

All of them were blue by coincidence, according to a blog post by Mr. Chen. The change to a black screen comes in the wake of last year’s outage generated by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

Microsoft touted the updates as an “easier” and “faster” way to recover from restarts. The software giant’s blue screen of death dates back to the early 1990s, according to longtime ...

Microsoft allegedly developed a new system crash screen back during the initial development of Windows 11, but apparently discarded those changes—or at least postponed them for a later release.

Microsoft's iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is dead after 40 years. RIP to the most panic-inducing screen a Windows user can encounter. Now, get ready to fear the Black Screen of Death. In a ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft released emergency Windows updates to address an issue affecting local audit logon policies in Active Directory Group Policy and warned admins that Windows Server 2025 ...

It started with the “blue screen of unhappiness” in Windows 3.1 when the control-alt-delete shortcut was added to exit an unresponsive program, along with dialogue written by former Microsoft ...

The black screen, Microsoft says, is a signifier of better days ahead. It will be “easier than ever to navigate unexpected restarts and recover faster,” the company said in a blog post.