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 Blue Screen of Death we know today, fit with its frowning emoticon, is a relatively new development in the history of Windows.

What is now known as the Blue Screen of Death debuted in Windows 1.0 in 1985, and since then, it has appeared on millions of screens—maybe billions around the world.

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?

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Though many trace the BSOD’s origins to Windows 1.0’s rudimentary crash traps in 1985, it wasn’t until Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 that Microsoft formalized its full-blown “STOP error” screen.

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The developer build of Windows 8 shows that Microsoft's next major operating system will have a new, and somewhat sad, blue screen of death.

A black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad face. The blue screen of death has been around since Windows 1.0 came out in 1985.

Though many trace the BSOD’s origins to Windows 1.0’s rudimentary crash traps in 1985, it wasn’t until Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 that Microsoft formalized its full-blown “STOP error” screen.

Windows’ blue screen of death has remained an inherent part of the operating system’s many iterations. The BSOD was first implemented via Windows 1.0, which was released in 1985.

The Blue Screen of Death will return in a future Windows 11 update, shedding its recently acquired black facade.