For almost 40 years, when a Windows computer crashed severely, it would display the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), a blue screen with an error message that typically indicated a serious system ...

Microsoft's iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is dead after 40 years. RIP to the most panic-inducing screen a Windows user can encounter. Now, get ready to fear the Black Screen of Death. In a ...

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

REDMOND, Wash. — Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life. Now, after more than ...

The Blue Screen of Death in Windows is never a good thing. But Microsoft is now making the screen a bit less bright and a bit more helpful.

And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.

Microsoft is scrapping the blue screen of death, the dreaded error screen that appears when your computer is malfunctioning. Instead, the screen will now turn black. The company says the update will ...

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 ...