A black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad face. The blue screen of death has been around since Windows 1.0 came out in 1985.

The website ismy.blue will populate a full screen of one color, and it will ask the user if it is green or blue. Colors on the screen will gradually become more similar until the site concludes ...

(AP) - 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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft allegedly developed a new system crash screen back during the initial development of Windows 11, but apparently discarded those changes—or at least postponed them for a later release.

"I bought my husband a blue screen of death T-shirt and he wore it to work at Microsoft corporate headquarters back in the day," CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper said. "I wondered for a minute ...