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

Microsoft has officially begun phasing out the iconic Blue Screen of Death, a decades-old symbol of system crashes, and is replacing it with a Black Screen of Death. The change is rolling out with the ...

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

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 the error screen, including the color.

Microsoft is about to end blue screen of death errors forever — by getting rid of the traditional blue screen. Instead, if ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 40 years of being se… ...

Have you seen the dreaded Blue Screen of Death on your Windows 11 PC since installing an update? You’re not alone, and Microsoft has now confirmed the problem.

The blue screen of death is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything. Here’s what can cause it.

If there’s one thing that can be called the most annoying – and there are a few – about the Windows operating system, is the infamous Blue Screen of Death.