Windows 11 is changing the infamous Blue Screen of Death to black, but also fixing it. Microsoft is rolling out a new, streamlined user interface for these restarts that's part of a bigger push to ...

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 ...

You know the drill: out of nowhere you see a screen that tells you your Windows device has hit “a problem and needs to restart.” It’s known as the Blue Screen of Death and recently it was thought that ...

Windows users have all been there-- the dreaded error message, otherwise known as the “Blue Screen of Death.” After 40 years, Microsoft is changing the design of ...

With its release of the update KB5062660 for Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft has killed the infamous Blue Screen of Death and changed it to the Black Screen of Death. Now ...

Apple today shared a new "Blue Screen of Death" ad that appears to mock a major Windows computer outage that occurred last year, following a faulty CrowdStrike security update. Macs were unaffected, ...

The new design has a black background instead of the traditional blue, which has been used since the feature's introduction in Windows 3.0 in 1990. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

Apple has released “The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death),” a video short that skillfully pokes fun at a Microsoft problem from last year, when a serious Windows computer crash occurred due to a ...

The iconic “Blue Screen of Death” (now known as the Black Screen of Death) has grown increasingly rare with Windows 11 users hardly seeing it anymore. But that isn’t stopping Apple from using it in ...