The dreaded “Blue Screen of Death”, which has plagued millions of Windows users for decades, is being retired.
Microsoft is abandoning the notorious feature that appears on computers in the coming months, “simplifying the experience of unexpected reset” with a new black screen, the company announced in a post on its blog.
The “simplified” screen that appears during “unexpected restarts” will be implemented later this summer on all Windows 11 devices that use 24H2 operational software. It will also reduce reset to “about two seconds for most users,” the company said.
Variations of “” have been used since the early 1990s. It began with the “blue screen of unhappiness” on Windows 3.1, when the control-alt-delete shortcut was added to close a program that was not responding, along with a dialogue written by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
But according to Microsoft Raymond Chen employee, the true “Blue Screen of Death” was released in 1993 on Windows NT when the “system is irrecovely killed at this point.”
In addition, a version of the black screen was introduced in 2021 for Windows 11 users. This new iteration has updated dialogue.
The blue screen haunted millions of people last July when a major interruption caused by the paralyzed most world technology and Windows -operated machines showed the blue infamous.
