Beyond the now-black background, Windows' new "screen of death" has a slightly shorter message. It's also no longer accompanied by a frowning face — and instead shows a percentage completed for ...

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

Microsoft decided to replace Windows 11’s Blue Screen of Death with a black one, you know, again: Here's what's changing.

After more than 40 years, the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" will soon be displayed across a black background.

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

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.

Microsoft is replacing its iconic “blue screen of death” with a new black restart screen as part of Windows 11, 24-H2 updates, aiming to “streamline the unexpected restart experience ...

As part of the WRI, Microsoft is replacing the decades-old Blue Screen of Death with a simplified black interface to reduce downtime and speed up recovery during system failures.

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 ...

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?