All of them were blue by coincidence, according to a blog post by Mr. Chen. The change to a black screen comes in the wake of last year’s outage generated by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

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 ...

It started with the “blue screen of unhappiness” in Windows 3.1 when the control-alt-delete shortcut was added to exit an unresponsive program, along with dialogue written by former Microsoft ...

Beyond the now-black background, Windows' new “screen of death” has a slightly shorter message. It's also no longer accompanied by a frowning face — and instead shows a percentage completed ...