Microsoft is replacing the iconic Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death in Windows 11. The update brings a cleaner look, faster restart times, and aims to make crashes rarer - so ...

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

After four decades, Microsoft is retiring the iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSoD), replacing it with a black screen as part of the 'Windows Resiliency Initiative.' This change aims to modernize the ...

Though many trace the BSOD’s origins to Windows 1.0’s rudimentary crash traps in 1985, it wasn’t until Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 that Microsoft formalized its full-blown “STOP error” screen.

Users around the world know and dread seeing what is universally known as the Windows Blue Screen of Death. But it may soon be a thing of the past. Announcing new Windows resiliency features, ...

Blue screen errors have been around since the very first version of Windows in 1985, when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a baby and the Iron Curtain was in place. The “blue screen” we are familiar with ...

The humble BSOD has been with us since the very early days of Windows. In Windows 1.0, if you loaded it with the wrong version of DOS, it would flash up a blue screen telling you as such.

The current Windows 11 release has a more streamlined user interface and is the most reliable yet, Microsoft says.

Suddenly, without warning, the display was washed with a blue screen. I stared at the screen unblinkingly, thinking I had killed my dad’s PC for good.