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 decided to replace Windows 11’s Blue Screen of Death with a black one, you know, again: Here's what's changing.

As part of a broader resiliency initiative, Microsoft is changing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to a black screen on ...

Windows has killed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), replacing it with the Black Screen of Death (also BSOD). The original blue screen, which also featured a sad-face emoticon, has been around for ...

Nearly every Windows user has had a run in with the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" at some point in their computing life ...

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

We’ve known this cobalt harbinger of trouble for a long time. When the BSOD first appeared in the 1985 version of Windows 1.0, it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes; Germany was two ...

The software giant’s blue screen of death dates to the early 1990s, according to longtime Microsoft developer Raymond Chen.

Microsoft Corporation MSFT announced to retire the iconic Blue Screen of Death after nearly 40 years. The tech giant is ...

A few years later, I look at the Blue Screen of Death more fondly. Yes, it’s annoying to see one, but it’s also part of the Windows identity. People instantly know what a BSOD is.

Windows 11 is getting Quick Machine Recovery and a redesigned Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) this summer to boost reliability and cut downtime.

It usually happens to your computer right in the middle of something important: The dreaded Microsoft Windows blue error ...