The Blue Screen of Death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything to avoid bigger problems.

Microsoft kills the legendary Blue Screen of Death. It looks like this now We're all familiar with the Windows BSOD, but Microsoft is now making it simpler in appearance—and getting rid of the blue.

1. Why a blue screen occurs. A Windows system crash with a blue screen is always due to a driver or the hardware. It can also be a driver that is not directly related to the hardware, such as a ...

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The appearance of the Blue Screen of Death in Windows is never a good thing. But Microsoft is aiming to at least make the screen look better when it does appear. Also: Microsoft's free AI skills ...

The blue screen that showed up in Windows 95 and 98 was retired, and the Blue Screen of Death we know today was finally universal. From Windows 2000 up to Windows 7, the Blue Screen of Death didn ...

Microsoft did briefly turn the BSOD to a black screen in test builds of Windows 11 in 2021, but the company then reverted back to the blue screen it had been using since Windows 8.

And a similar screen preceded the Windows NT Blue Screen of Death, Plummer said, further adding to the confusion. “There was a blue screen in the Windows of the older days of the ‘80s,” he said.