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The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one. By Sopan Deb For millennials, blue can be a significant color. It is associated with clues left ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is testing a new error screen for Windows 11, replacing the Blue Screen of Death with a Green or Black Screen of Death. The new design removes the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is one of the most hated things in tech. It’s a ...

In an update to Windows 11 coming later this year, the old BSOD will give way to a new BSOD -- only with black replacing blue. Painted in a dark shade similar to the Windows Update screen, the new ...

Microsoft has decided to change the black screen of death (BSOD) introduced in Windows 11 back to the more familiar blue color. As Ars Technica discovered in extensive patch notes for a new preview ...

Microsoft Corporation MSFT announced to retire the iconic Blue Screen of Death after nearly 40 years. The tech giant is replacing it with a Black Screen of Death for Windows 11 users. What Happened: ...

Windows 11 may soon switch to a Black Screen of Death for operating system crash screens rather than the blue screen that has been used for many years. All Windows users have at one point experienced ...

June 28 (UPI) --The infamous "blue screen of death," which featured a text frown and terrified those who experienced it, no longer exists after Microsoft killed it 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 ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is killing off its iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The screen is something most Windows users (unfortunately) are all too familiar with—the azure shade that appears ...