Posted on 06/26/2025 2:28:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Microsoft is saying hello to the Black Screen of Death error message instead.
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified black screen.
The simplified BSOD looks a lot more like the black screen you’d see during a Windows update. But it will list the stop code and faulty system driver that you wouldn’t always see during a crash dump. IT admins shouldn’t need to pull crash dumps off PCs and analyze them with tools like WinDbg just to find out what could be causing issues.
“This is really an attempt on clarity and providing better information and allowing us and customers to really get to what the core of the issue is so we can fix it faster,” says David Weston, vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, in an interview with The Verge. “Part of it just cleaner information on what exactly went wrong, where it’s Windows versus a component.”
Microsoft says it will roll out this new BSOD design in an update to Windows 11 “later this summer,” alongside its new Quick Machine Recovery feature, which...
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That’s the female California Raisin. I heard it thru the grapevine.
I'm much more comfortable with my computer holding that information than a clerk who makes minimum wage at a bank.
Unless that clerk bankrupts the bank, the bank is liable for any damages to my account.
Who do I sue when a hacker gets my info and cashes me out?
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Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
A couple of thoughts.
1. Isn’t the black screen of death racist? I am surprised that the NAALCP hasn’t complained. Associating computer problems and error messages with blacks.
2. It makes things depressing and horrible. It is not uplifting.
Realistically, anyone unable to interpret that message is going to be unable to fix whatever caused it.
A lot of us career developers my age talk about programming our Commodores, Ataris, or “Trash 80’s” before we were old enough to drive.
I know this is a quaint attitude to have these days—but communicating clearly and openly with your customers is a great way to keep them as customers.
Treating them like ignorant fools is a great way to lose them as customers.
My dad had an old TRS-80, had fun with it writing fun scripts.
I’m just not sure there is a “lay” way to explain the details of a complex computer problem.
Black Screen Of Death has the same acronym as The Blue Screen of Death. You’re getting a BSOD any way you slice it. Thanks Microsoft.
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Not only are you Bipolar, you are quite observant. Good job.
Aw gee. I’m getting red faced embarrassed. Thanks.
Microsoft has always treated their customers as too dumb to understand anything other than clicking ‘Ok’ and ‘I agree’.
Even back in the DOS days a system error would result in an incomprehensible (and useless) memory hex dump with little or no useful diagnostic information.
In many years of running Linux I have never had an equivalent b,ue screen of death. I had a few bad installs, lost the grub menu a few times, and lost the operating system altogether due to human error, but the computer locking up/restarting to another error message over and over 10- 30 times a day like u have had with windows 10 and 11. Windows 7 was great- I don’t even recall any bsod’s with it for years. I had forgotten about bsod’s UNTIL windows 11 rolled out, and even windows 10 worked fine until fairly recent updates, now it too is plagued with bsod’s like 11 is.
Well, at .east it isn’t a queer rainbow color screen
When the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) appears or any error code then why doesn’t the FIX appear as well?
Also why doesn’t Windows fix itself without you having to shutdown the pc 2 times upon startup then if you are lucky on the 3rd boot you get to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) screen and hopefully be able to repair. In the olden days of Windows 7 you just pressed the F8 key upon bootup so Microsoft thought they would make it more difficult at the worst time...
It would be nice to have a Help file with suggestions on a fix there too but nooo...
You are given an error code that you have to look up online and it can be vague as to useless.
Microsoft has been hiring folks with your “this stuff is too complex to explain to the idiot masses” attitude for decades.
Lol.
Hint: Explaining complex matters to five year olds is a skill—like any other skill. It is a total mystery to those who do not have that skill.
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