US Edition'Blue Screen of Death' Will Soon Turn Black
- On June 26, 2025, Microsoft announced that it will replace the long-standing Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death on Windows 11 24H2 devices in an upcoming update.
- This change follows a major update effort triggered by a faulty CrowdStrike update in July 2024 that crashed over 8 million Windows machines globally.
- The new black screen features a simplified UI with no frowning face or QR code, a shorter message, and displays the stop code and faulty driver at the bottom.
- David Weston, Microsoft’s OS security VP, said this update aims to provide "clarity and better information" so issues can be fixed faster, with restart downtime now about two seconds.
- Microsoft also introduced a quick machine recovery mechanism to reduce disruption during crashes and said it will generally roll out for all Windows 11 24H2 PCs later this summer.
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Windows' blue screen of death' will be no more
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 recognizable blue, the updated error message…
Windows will leave behind one of its best known images, after four decades, the traditional blue screen that indicated critical errors and forced to restart the system will change color. This transformation is part of a major update of the Windows 11 operating system.Microsoft confirmed that the new interface will be called ‘black screen of death’, the redesign seeks to offer a clearer and technical experience. This new version will leave the bl…
Windows’ infamous ‘blue screen of death’ will soon turn black | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch
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 recognizable blue, the updated error message will soon be displayed across a black background.
Still a bit of an end of an era: the infamous 'blue screen of death' (BSOD for short) is disappearing. That is the screen that has been indicating a problem with the Windows operating system of your computer since 1985. The blue error message gets a new, simpler design and will now be black.
Windows 11 is finally killing the Blue Screen of Death
The infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error messages in Windows are one reason I switched to Mac more than 15 years ago and never looked back. It wasn’t the blue screens themselves that finally convinced me to move to macOS and leave the familiar Windows experience behind. I just got to a point where I hated everything about using Windows. The BSOD errors were just the cherry on top, warning me that something had gone terribly wrong and might…
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