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 ...

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 ...

A Microsoft logo is seen on a screen as people listen at an event at Microsoft headquarters, May 20, 2024, in Redmond, Wash. Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen ...

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 blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one. By Sopan Deb For millennials, blue can be a significant color. It is associated with clues left ...

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 times, they are a-changing—at least over at Microsoft, that is. The universally shared Windows user experience of the “blue screen of death” will soon be a thing of the past. For many Microsoft ...

The bad news is they've ditched the smiley face. The good news is we get to keep the acronym. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Apple today shared a new "Blue Screen of Death" ad that appears to mock a major Windows computer outage that occurred last year, following a faulty CrowdStrike security update. Macs were unaffected, ...

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 ...

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 ...