TL;DR: Microsoft is retiring the iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) after 40 years, replacing it with a new Black Screen of Death featuring a simplified UI and ...

The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error messages in Windows are one reason I switched to Mac more than 15 years ago and never looked back. It wasn't the blue ...

Windows 11 is changing the infamous Blue Screen of Death to black, but also fixing it. Microsoft is rolling out a new, streamlined user interface for these restarts that's part of a bigger push to ...

CHANG: This thing that pops up when your computer suddenly restarts? I hate that thing. SHAPIRO: Yeah, well, RIP because Microsoft announced this week that the dreaded BSOD is no more. CHANG: Yeah, ...

Microsoft has retired one of the most terrifying warnings you could get mid-project. Known as the “blue screen of death,” the error message would appear when ...

Like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters, another 1980s icon is gone. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" is going ...

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 ...

You know the drill: out of nowhere you see a screen that tells you your Windows device has hit “a problem and needs to restart.” It’s known as the Blue Screen of Death and recently it was thought that ...

The notorious Blue Screen of Death, well-known by many Windows users, is getting a makeover. Windows has killed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), replacing it with the Black Screen of Death (also BSOD) ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced to retire the iconic Blue Screen of Death after nearly 40 years. The tech giant is replacing it with a Black Screen of Death for Windows 11 users. What ...

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 ...

The original blue screen was first introduced in the early 1990s, according to longtime developer Raymond Chen. Microsoft also announced plans to update the user interface to better match the Windows ...