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Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Microsoft's ‘blue screen of death' has died at 40
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 screen and error code. The blue screen has been in use since Windows 1.0 was made available in 1985, but it will be replaced by the new black screen without the frown with the Microsoft 11, version 24H2 systems starting this summer, CNET reported. Microsoft used the blue screen to indicate system failures and the need to restart the computer, which often meant a loss of data and time wasted on work that might not have been saved. The new black screen is a "simplified UI for unexpected restarts" and part of Microsoft's new resiliency program for the Windows operating system. The black screen is designed to make it much easier and faster to fix problems by providing a stop code and identifying the relevant system driver. Microsoft says it could reduce system recovery time to as little as 2 seconds following a computer crash. The tech giant announced the change on Thursday, which addresses concerns raised following the global CrowdStrike outage that affected more than 8 million computers due an undetected error last year on July 19. The outage affected 911 services, airline travel, television and public infrastructure.
CNN
3 days ago
- CNN
Microsoft is retiring the infamous ‘blue screen of death'
The dreaded 'blue screen of death' that has tormented millions of Windows users for decades is being put to rest. Microsoft is ditching the notorious feature that appears on Windows computers in the coming months, 'streamlining the unexpected restart experience' with a new black-colored screen, the company announced in a blog post. The 'simplified' screen that appears during 'unexpected restarts' will roll out later this summer on all Windows 11 devices that use 24H2 operating software. It will also reduce reboots to 'about two seconds for most users,' the company said. Variations of the 'blue screen of death' have been in use since the early 1990s. It started with the 'blue screen of unhappiness' in Windows 3.1 when the control-alt-delete shortcut was added to exit an unresponsive program, along with dialogue written by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. But according to Microsoft employee Raymond Chen, the actual 'blue screen of death' launched in 1993 on Windows NT when the 'system is unrecoverably dead at this point.' Also, a version of the black screen was introduced in 2021 to Windows 11 users. This new iteration has updated dialogue. The blue screen haunted millions of people last July when a massive outage caused by CrowdStrike brought most of the world's technology to its knees and Windows-operated machines displayed the infamous blue.
