Microsoft is about to end blue screen of death errors forever — by getting rid of the traditional blue screen. Instead, if your system encounters an unexpected failure and needs to restart, you’ll see ...

The new design has a black background instead of the traditional blue, which has been used since the feature's introduction ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for ...

Windows 11's Blue Screen of Death is now black and more streamlined - but I'm worried the simplification goes too far.

Meet the new bummer-screen boss: The black screen of death, minus the blue screen's frowny face.

The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one.

Windows’ infamous ‘blue screen of death’ will soon turn black Microsoft says this “simplified” user interface for unexpected restarts will be available later this summer on all of its ...

Microsoft is replacing the familiar Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death in the upcoming Windows 11 update ...

When does the Windows Black Screen of Death arrive? In its blog post, Microsoft said that the new Black Screen of Death will replace the Blue Screen of Death in the Windows 11 24H2 update.

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?

Microsoft has announced that it is getting rid of its Blue Screen error display to make way for a "Black Screen of Death." ...

After 40 years, Microsoft is replacing its iconic “blue screen of death” (BSOD) for a cleaner, sleeker black screen. The infamous BSOD was plastered across monitors in July 2024 when a faulty ...