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

Microsoft replaces the infamous Blue Screen of Death with a Black one in Windows 11. The update promises clearer crash messages and faster recovery for both users and IT admins.

Microsoft is replacing the Blue Screen of Death with a simplified black screen error message in Windows 11, which displays a problem notification and error code. This change aims to improve user ...

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.

The new black screen provides users and IT administrators with direct access to critical information such as stop codes and ...

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

Microsoft is replacing the familiar Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death in the upcoming Windows 11 update ...

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

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 ...

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

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?