The dreaded blue screen of death hasn’t met its maker after all: it’s just changed color and design. But that may bring a ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is killing off its iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The screen is something most Windows ...

The infamous "blue screen of death," which featured a text frown and terrified those who experienced it, no longer exists ...

In April 2025, Microsoft announced that the Blue Screen of Death would become the Black Screen of Death. At least the abbreviation (BSOD) still fits. Microsoft said this change would be introduced in ...

Microsoft did briefly turn the BSOD to a black screen in test builds of Windows 11 in 2021, but the company then reverted back to the blue screen it had been using since Windows 8.

Microsoft's "blue screen of death" has been used for decades to tell Windows users that their computers' operating systems are down. Microsoft ...

Some malware can cause blue screen errors. Try the Get Help app: Windows 11 has a built-in troubleshooting tool called Get Help. Search for it in the Windows search to run it, ...

The blue screen that showed up in Windows 95 and 98 was retired, and the Blue Screen of Death we know today was finally universal. From Windows 2000 up to Windows 7, the Blue Screen of Death didn ...

The Blue Screen of Death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything to avoid bigger problems.

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.