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Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Yahoo
Microsoft Sparks Outrage by Announcing Major Change After 40 Years
On Thursday, June 26 Microsoft announced "an initiative designed to make all digital environments touched by Microsoft products more secure and resilient." It's new Windows Resiliency Initiative prioritizes preventing, managing and recovering from security and reliability incidents, mitigating issues swiftly and providing seamless recovery across the Windows platform. Among the changes outlined in the press release is a new way to navigate unexpected restarts allowing users to recover faster. 'This is really an attempt on clarity and providing better information and allowing us and customers to really get to what the core of the issue is so we can fix it faster,' David Weston, vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, told The Verge. 'Part of it just cleaner information on what exactly went wrong, where it's Windows versus a component.' "The Windows 11 24H2 release included improvements to crash dump collection which reduced downtime during an unexpected restart to about two seconds for most users," Microsoft said in its release before getting to the part that's upsetting users. "We're introducing a simplified user interface (UI) that pairs with the shortened experience. The updated UI improves readability and aligns better with Windows 11 design principles, while preserving the technical information on the screen for when it is needed," the release said. While fans are looking forward to understanding the issue at not too pleased Microsoft is doing away with the "blue screen of death" in order to achieve a streamlined look with a new black screen. "I don't get it, why not keep the screen blue so it's easy to tell that there's a problem? The change to showing what exactly went wrong is nice, but that can be done without changing the color," one person said. "This is the third time Microsoft has announced that they're changing the BSOD from blue to black over the last fifteen years or so. And every time I make the same joke: as long as I don't have to learn any new acronyms," joked another. "If my computer is going to crash, at least let me feel nostalgic about it," exclaimed another. RIP blue screen of Sparks Outrage by Announcing Major Change After 40 Years first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 28, 2025
Entrepreneur
27-06-2025
- Entrepreneur
Microsoft's 'Blue Screen of Death' Is Changing to Black
Microsoft is changing the infamous blue screen — that you never want to see. Microsoft outlined a major change to its "Windows Resiliency Initiative" this week in an effort to make the company's products "more secure and resilient" after last year's CrowdStrike outage. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft said it is "streamlining the unexpected restart experience" and adding "quick machine recovery, a recovery mechanism for PCs that cannot restart successfully." But the big change people will notice right away (well, hoping you never have to see it) is that the color of the "blue screen of death," which has been around for 40 years, will now be black. Related: The Largest IT Outage in History Took Place on Friday Due to a Crowdstrike Update. Here's How the CEO Is Responding. Or, as TechCrunch notes, the blue screen of death will now be the "black screen of death." The new Windows 11 unexpected restart screen (Courtesy: Microsoft) "This change is part of a larger, continued effort to reduce disruption in the event of an unexpected restart," Microsoft wrote in the blog post. "We're introducing a simplified user interface (UI) that pairs with the shortened experience." Microsoft says the blue to black switch, or "updated UI," helps to improve readability and "aligns better with Windows 11 design principles, while preserving the technical information on the screen for when it is needed." Blue digital boards are seen due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides cybersecurity services to US technology company Microsoft, in Times Square in New York City, on July 19, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) The black screens will certainly stand out less if there's ever another major issue. The CrowdStrike outage affected more than 8.5 million Windows devices (and all of the businesses that use them, from airlines to sports stadiums), which led to a spate of viral images showing the "blue screen of death" on huge screens from stock exchanges to Times Square. Related: Read the Memo from CrowdStrike Explaining How Its Update Broke the World's Computers
