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.

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

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?

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The thing is, this new Blue Screen of Death isn't even blue. During testing, it appears green, but the screen will eventually be black when it rolls out to the public.

Either it shipped with BitLocker enabled, or it somehow got enabled when I upgraded to Windows 11. Perhaps that Microsoft support page has outdated/incorrect information.

Over its 40 years, PCMag has covered every version of Microsoft's operating system. Like you, sometimes we loved it, and sometimes we didn't. Let's take it back to MS-DOS to see how Windows has ...

The Windows Lock Screen Images Viewer is a simple application that allows you to easily view and navigate to the directory containing the Windows lock screen images. It provides a user-friendly ...

Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases.

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project. Contribute to joncampbell123/dosbox-x development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft has released Windows 1.0 theme for Windows 10. Download the Windows Throwback theme from Microsoft Store, today.