The new BSOD is rolling out to Windows 11 Release Preview users today, meaning it should appear for all Windows 11 users in a ...

Microsoft is rolling out significant changes to Windows 11 24H2 as part of the Windows Resilience Initiative, designed to ...

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

The blue screen has been in use since Windows 1.0 was made available in 1985, but it will be replaced by the new black screen without the frown with the Microsoft 11, version 24H2 systems starting ...

What is now known as the Blue Screen of Death debuted in Windows 1.0 in 1985, and since then, it has appeared on millions of screens—maybe billions around the world.

As noted in the Microsoft blog, “We’re also proud to share that Windows 11 24H2 is our most reliable version of Windows yet.

Microsoft says the new black screen of death, which it calls a "simplified UI for unexpected restarts," will appear in its place starting later this summer on all Windows 11, version 24H2 devices.

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?

And you won’t have to stare at the screen for long. As part of the Windows 11 24H2 release, the downtime of an unexpected restart will be about two seconds for most users, Microsoft promised.

The blue screen of death errors on computer screens are viewed due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides cybersecurity services to U.S. technology company ...

Microsoft allegedly developed a new system crash screen back during the initial development of Windows 11, but apparently discarded those changes—or at least postponed them for a later release.