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 recognizable ...

Over 40 years, the blue screen of death worked its way into pop culture, with plenty of memes, a subreddit devoted to it, and T-shirts and other items bearing its image.

June 28 (UPI) --The infamous "blue screen of death," which featured a text frown and terrified those who experienced it, no longer exists after Microsoft killed it in favor of a simple black ...

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 recognizable ...

Nearly every Windows user has had a run in with the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" at some point in their computing life ...

The times, they are a-changing—at least over at Microsoft, that is. The universally shared Windows user experience of the “blue screen of death” will soon be a thing of the past.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All right. What's blue, now black and means your computer is starting over? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Would that be the Windows blue screen of death? SHAPIRO: Correct.

The "blue screen of death," which has been use in for several decades, is coming to an end, Microsoft announced. (Harun Ozalp, Anadolu/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) ...

The dreaded “blue screen of death” that has tormented millions of Microsoft Window users for decades is being put to rest.

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