Microsoft’s prestigious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is dead after 40 years. The most terror-rage can withstand a Windows user ripped on the screen. Now, get ready to fear the black screen of death.
One in blog post Today on its website, the company revealed that it is ready to go live with an error screen redesign. Test since marchIn an update of all Windows 11, version 24h2 devices “later this heat”, BSOD will finally be excluded from its grief.
This is the possibility of a bitwatch moment for Windows users, which are undoubtedly mixed feelings about the fate of the warning. Despite her inauspicious names, obtaining BSOD was not always as serious as it seemed – a simple accident could trigger it, and restarting can easily fix it. This can be worse than that, but in many cases, the old BSOD has a couple of personality in the most annoying obstacles in your workflow. Especially in recent years, when you look at the emoticon in a sidewalk with your error message.
But sometimes, personality is not what you need, especially when you are already facing a serious error about your computer. Businesses and passengers were equally bombing with a particularly untoward blue screen of death during the previous year’s extended crowdstruk outage, so it makes sense that Microsoft wants to move away from any collaboration with it.
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Enter a new black screen of death. Like other Windows error messages, it is a simple black screen that says, in white text, “Your device has gone into a problem and needs to be resumed.” Below this is a progress counter, with your error code and which process has triggered it.
“Updated UI improves the UI readability and Windows 11 lines better with design principles,” said David Weston, Vice President of Enterprise and OS Safety.
What do you think so far?
I agree that it is certainly a little less inauspicious, then the current BSOD, which spends a lot of screen space on that large drowning emoticon, and used to say that “your PC had gone into a problem that it could not handle it before something else”. Personally, I think the new approach can better reflect most situations that can trigger a BSOD – they are usually not as scary as they seem. Furthermore, the old error screen did not really tell you which process has failed, so seeing that there is a good bonus at its replacement (it would sometimes show a QR code, but I often could not scan it before starting my computer).
Nevertheless, a part of mine will miss the old blue screen of death, similarly I miss the red ring of death that claimed my first Xbox 360. Stockholm syndrome, I think?
At any rate, Microsoft says that when it releases the death of the new black screen (not the official name for the error message, but neither was “Blue Screen of Death”), it will also release a new quick machine recovery facility, which will help you reach the PC that cannot normally restart. In other words, the company is trying to ensure that we will never find another crowdstruk event soon. And if we do, it is hopeful that we will feel a little less blue.
