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

In this post, we show you how to fix the mtkwl6ex.sys Blue Screen on Windows 11/10 computers. The mtkwl6ex.sys is a MediaTek WiFi device driver, and since you are seeing this BSOD, we can make an ...

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 ...

Terror has a new shade. What once was blue darkened with time until all that remains is a backend void, empty as the OLED ...

If it appeared, “the system is unrecoverably dead at this point,” according to Raymond Chen, who worked on early versions of Windows. Now, after 33 years, Microsoft is retiring the Blue Screen of ...

We're all familiar with the Windows BSOD, but Microsoft is now making it simpler in appearance—and getting rid of the iconic blue color in the process.

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for ...

This new crash screen will be black, as the name suggests, and there will be no cutesy frowny face and QR code. It'll just be a black screen with a short message that tells users they need to restart.