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

Microsoft is replacing the BSOD error with a black design in Windows 11 to speed recovery and strengthen resilience after the 2024 CrowdStrike outage.

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.

Microsoft is changing, for the first time in nearly 40 years, the iconic Windows crash screen – the blue is giving way to black, with a clean design that displays an error code.

We're all familiar with the Windows BSOD, but Microsoft is now making it simpler in appearance—and getting rid of the iconic blue color in the process.

Microsoft is replacing the iconic Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death in Windows 11. The update brings a cleaner look, faster restart times, and aims to make crashes rarer - so most ...

The developer build of Windows 8 shows that Microsoft's next major operating system will have a new, and somewhat sad, blue screen of death.

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Microsoft is saying hello to the Black Screen of Death error message instead. ...