Microsoft is Phasing Out the Infamous “Blue Screen of Death”

Windows users have been plagued by the dreaded “blue screen of death” for decades. Now, Microsoft is putting an end to it.

In a recent blog post, the company announced that it’s getting rid of the notorious feature that appears on Windows computers during unexpected restarts. Instead, users will see a new black-colored screen, which the company claims will improve the restart experience.

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The new simplified screen will be available to all Windows 11 devices with 24H2 software later this summer. Microsoft says it will cut reboot times to only a few seconds on the majority of users.

The blue screen of death appeared in the early 90s. It began with the blue screen of unhappiness in Windows 3.1 which included lines of dialogue written by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The real blue screen of death did not come out until 1993 on Windows NT when it was evident that the system could not be fixed.

In 2021, Microsoft released a variant of the black screen to Windows 11 users with new dialogue. But the giant outage that occurred last July and was caused by CrowdStrike and impacted most of the technology in the world took many users back to the blue screen.