Meet the new bummer-screen boss: ... After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, ... The blue screen of death has been around since Windows 1.0 came out in 1985.

Windows shared the new Black Screen of Death in a blog post, yet failed to even acknowledge the cosmic shift it has triggered. It simply calls this a “simplified UI,” because a blue background ...

Here’s what you need to know about the death of the Blue Screen of Death. An ignominious Windows staple for 40 years. Though Windows has changed pretty radically since version 1.0 came out in ...