It's official — the infamous Blue Screen of Death will soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft announced plans to retire its ...

After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" is going away.

The blue screen has been in use since Windows 1.0 was made available in 1985, but it will be replaced by the new black screen without the frown with the Microsoft 11, version 24H2 systems starting ...

With an upcoming Windows update, Microsoft will be doing away with the sad face emoji and QR code that appear on the Blue Screen of Death.

Windows users about to get major change to 'blue screen of death' when computer fails The error message was first introduced in Windows 1.0 way back in 1985 ...

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s.

After taking a brief detour to show a black screen for Windows 11 a few years ago, Microsoft reverted the BSOD to Blue. But once again the company is looking to update the crash screen.

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?