So for a long time, blue screen of death. Surprisingly, you will miss you

Subsequently, Windows 10 (2016) added a QR code, so that rather than scribbling the error messages, you can use the phone to quickly jump to a support page. (And therefore probably restarts anyway, when you realized that it was no help.) Windows 11 (2021) arrived, which briefly made the dramatic visual change of transforming the black BSOD, corresponding to the access and arresting screens. This was subsequently restoredPerhaps in response to the anguished cries of confused users and support engineers.

So what’s different this time?

Black again: because Microsoft is abandoning blue

In 2024, an update of Crowdstrike did not make innumerable PCs unusable, breaking down airlines, railways, banks, television stations and more. What did they have in common? Everyone proudly showed the blue screen of death. It is not difficult to imagine that Microsoft wants to distance himself from those images making his crash screen less iconic, less memorable, less Memeableand less evident.

Not that Microsoft would ever say it. Officially, the new anomalous arrest screen is part of Windows’s wider resilience initiative, designed to make Windows more resilient. And the redesign is specifically focused on clarity and simplicity. According to David Weston, Vice President Microsoft, Enterprise and OS Security, “improves readability and is better aligned with the design principles of Windows 11, preserving technical information on the screen for when necessary”.

There is probably also an additional bonus: to remove all the distinct images from the Windows crash screen gives Apple a less thing to make fun of. So it does not add the BSOD colors and 🙁 to the macOS pc icons.

Feel blue: Microsoft could regret change

But before Wired suggests that Black has a nice appearance above all, including the Windows locking screen, we ask: should Microsoft think about it, how did he do in 2021?

A Whistle-Stop tour of color theory books will tell you that blue is widely considered positive, precisely through cultures. It is the most favorite shade and associated with calm, serenity and competence. It is the sky and the sea: the shadow “Everything is probably fine”. On the contrary, black is the absence color. Cold. Threatening. The void.

Even more important, the blue screen of death is recognizable. You can identify it through the room and immediately know that something went very crooked. A Black Crash screen, however, risks mergeing with the refresher screens. And something you certainly don’t want to do is that users confuse the two in any way. AS a commentator Wired Spotted said: “Wouldn’t you change the colors of road signals, so why do it to the equivalent of the computer?”

Whatever the reason, for example a negative image, a unifying design, simplify an experience or simply change for the taste of it – the blue screen of death is in time borrowed. However, Bsod’s acronym will surely live, because there is no possibility that Microsoft’s unexpected “unexpected reboot screen” attacks. It is not a name; It is an euphemism.

It will always be a screen of the death to be wiring, whatever the shade, black or blue. The Bsod is dead. Long live the BSOD.