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 ...

Almost every Windows user has encountered the legendary “Blue Screen of Death” (or BSOD for short) at least once. More than anything else, the infamous error ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released update KB5062660 for Windows 11 24H2, and that means the iconic “Blue Screen of Death” has officially been replaced by the long-awaited “Black Screen of Death” (which ...

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 ...

The Crowdstrike disaster in July 2024 gave Microsoft a black eye. How could third-party security software fail so spectacularly — to the point that millions of Windows PCs became unbootable unless ...