Update: According to The Verge, Microsoft will finalize the transition to the new Black Screen of Death for current Windows 11 users “later this summer.” Microsoft It’s not just the color.

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?

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s.

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 set against a very ...

Microsoft is killing Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death, but that doesn't mean the end of unexpected errors.

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

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

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 set against a very ...

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 set against a very ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All right. What’s blue, now black and means your computer is starting over? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Would that be the Windows blue screen of death? SHAPIRO: Correct. CHANG: This thing ...