Windows Replacing the 'Blue Screen of Death'

[Monroe]

Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years.

Microsoft is saying hello to the Black Screen of Death error message instead.

https://www.theverge.com/news/692648/microsoft-bsod-black-screen-of-death-color-change-official

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[Dave-H]

Is nothing sacred?!

[modnar]

11 hours ago, Dave-H said:

Is nothing sacred?!

You know it has to resemble the colour of their souls.

[Karla Sleutel]

On 6/26/2025 at 2:09 PM, Monroe said:

Black Screen of Death error message instead.

But it existed before! It'd be confusing. 

[Tripredacus]

Bring back the Azure Screen of Indifference!

Wasn't there a red screen of death in a Vista beta?

[Karla Sleutel]

22 hours ago, Tripredacus said:

Wasn't there a red screen of death in a Vista beta?

Totally right, interesting observation!

"It was dropped in Beta 1 (Build 5112) of Vista for all errors except boot loader errors. It can also be found (but rarely) in early builds of Windows 98, even when it was known as codename "Memphis", because these early builds have poor/broken ACPI support."
https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_crash_screens

[vinifera]

at least it won't contain stupid emoticon

[Karla Sleutel]

On 7/2/2025 at 6:11 PM, vinifera said:

stupid emoticon

By whose definition? I'm pretty sure they did a research among the testers during the beta.

[vinifera]

yeah just like with "mojave"

[Karla Sleutel]

On 7/4/2025 at 10:03 AM, vinifera said:

"mojave"

It's ‎macOS, not relevant.

[vinifera]

*facepalm

the vista experiment among id***
if i have to write it like so ...

[Dave-H]

21 hours ago, vinifera said:

*facepalm

the vista experiment among id***
if i have to write it like so ...

I do hope that remark was a generalisation referring to the software, and not aimed at anyone on this forum personally.
 

[vinifera]

i was referring to group of people they selected
even more ironic they taped it and showed to public
you can still find it, bunch of brainless people who never used pc...

[NojusK]

 

17 hours ago, vinifera said:

i was referring to group of people they selected
even more ironic they taped it and showed to public
you can still find it, bunch of brainless people who never used pc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsStHxtVr_w

Edited July 7, 2025 by NojusK

[cc333]

At least the acronym (BSoD) will still be valid, since both black and blue begin with the letter 'b'

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