Microsoft is replacing the BSOD error with a black design in Windows 11 to speed recovery and strengthen resilience after the 2024 CrowdStrike outage.

Microsoft did briefly turn the BSOD to a black screen in test builds of Windows 11 in 2021, but the company then reverted back to the blue screen it had been using since Windows 8.

Microsoft is rolling out a new sign-in screen for more than a billion consumers that access services like Outlook, Windows, Xbox, Microsoft 365, and more. The updated authentication screen is ...