"I bought my husband a blue screen of death T-shirt and he wore it to work at Microsoft corporate headquarters back in the day," CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper said. "I wondered for a minute ...

A pop-culture icon Over 40 years, the blue screen of death worked its way into pop culture, with plenty of memes, a subreddit devoted to it, and T-shirts and other items bearing its image. When ...

CrowdStrike and Microsoft were seemingly the most trending topics. Solana-based token generator Pump Fun, where users created hundreds of tokens referring to various memes that referred to the ...

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 ...

The Blue Screen of Death has evolved over the years from a rudimentary message to today’s display, which remains simple enough to immediately inform whoever is looking at it that they’re in ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is killing off its iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The screen is something most Windows users (unfortunately) are all too familiar with—the azure shade that ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 30, 2025, Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: End of Microsoft’s ‘Blue Screen of Death’ That Stressed Computer ...

But we laugh, because we must not cry. Memes and jokes about the issue began almost instantly. Here are some of our favorites. Happy International BlueScreen Day!