Microsoft is currently beginning to implement a new black version of its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The first significant ...

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

The Black Screen of Death in Windows usually appears due to an issue with a hardware device, its driver, or software.

Windows 11's latest update swaps the blue crash screen for a new black version with clearer error info, arriving alongside ...

Windows users have all been there— the dreaded error message, otherwise known as the “Blue Screen of Death.” After 40 years, Microsoft is changing the design of the error screen, including the color.

In April 2025, Microsoft announced that the Blue Screen of Death would become the Black Screen of Death. At least the abbreviation (BSOD) still fits. Microsoft said this change would be introduced in ...

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

June 28 (UPI) --The infamous "blue screen of death," which featured a text frown and terrified those who experienced it, no longer exists after Microsoft killed it in favor of a simple black ...

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.

Nearly every Windows user has had a run in with the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" at some point in their computing life ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All right. What's blue, now black and means your computer is starting over? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Would that be the Windows blue screen of death? SHAPIRO: Correct. CHANG: This ...

Microsoft says the change will make systems recover from crashes faster and it better fits the overall layout of their operating system. CHANG: Users may remember being bathed in a sea of blue light ...