Windows is adding a quick machine recovery feature, which helps PCs get back online if a restart is unsuccessful. Windows shared the new Black Screen of Death in a blog post, yet failed to even ...

What is now known as the Blue Screen of Death debuted in Windows 1.0 in 1985, and since then, it has appeared on millions of screens—maybe billions around the world. The Blue Screen of Death has ...

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' Blue Screen of Death Is Going Away The Blue Screen of Death has been part of the Windows experience for 40 years, having debuted on Windows 1.0 in 1985. However, later this year, the Blue ...

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.

This change marks the first major update to the BSOD since Microsoft added the sad face in Windows 8, and it’s a significant shift, especially in terms of color, which has been a part of Windows ...