The dreaded blue screen of death hasn’t met its maker after all: it’s just changed color and design. But that may bring a ...

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

The new design has a black background instead of the traditional blue, which has been used since the feature's introduction ...

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

Out of the Blue: Before the BSOD To be clear, there was no grand plan behind the Blue Screen of Death. Its origin story is a patchwork of coincidences and iteration.

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s.

The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one.

The "blue screen of death," which has been use in for several decades, is coming to an end, Microsoft announced. (Harun Ozalp, Anadolu/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) ...

Meet the new bummer-screen boss: The black screen of death, minus the blue screen's frowny face.

Microsoft is replacing its iconic blue screen of death with a new black screen of death, nearly 40 years after its introduction.

Microsoft has announced that it is getting rid of its Blue Screen error display to make way for a "Black Screen of Death." ...