Microsoft's iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is dead after 40 years. RIP to the most panic-inducing screen a Windows user can encounter. Now, get ready to fear the Black Screen of Death.

It’s been a long time that we’ve come to know this cobalt harbinger of trouble. When the BSOD first appeared in the 1985 version of Windows 1.0, it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes ...

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change.

The new BSOD will roll out to all Windows 11 PCs later this summer, we're told. It'll join a number of new features that Microsoft hopes will make the OS more reliable and easier to recover when ...

The change, according to Microsoft, "improves readability," while the new design "aligns better" with Microsoft's aesthetic principles. Say goodbye to the Blue Screen of Death. It's the end of an era.

What is now known as the Blue Screen of Death debuted in Windows 1.0 in 1985, and since then, it has appeared on millions of screens—maybe billions around the world. The Blue Screen of Death has ...

End of an Era: Microsoft Replaces Its Iconic Blue Screen of Death Your email has been sent What prompted Microsoft to rebuild its most familiar failure point after decades What the Windows ...

I'll agree that it's arguably a bit less ominous then the current BSOD, which spends a lot of screen space on that big frowning emoticon, and used to say "Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn ...

When the BSOD first appeared in the 1985 version of Windows 1.0, it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes; Germany was two separate countries; HTML code had not been created; Mark Zuckerberg was ...