August 30, 2025
After 40 years, Microsoft offers the Windows Blue Screen of Death after 40 years

After 40 years, Microsoft offers the Windows Blue Screen of Death after 40 years

After almost 40 years, Microsoft gets rid of the notorious Windows Blue Screen of Death.

Most Windows users have probably met the screen and its restoration message at an impractical time.

The software company announced on Thursday that it introduces a simplified user interface in its place – a black screen of death.

The rollout drives almost a year from a large global failure to a faulty update of crowdstrike from cybersecurity.

Airlines, hospitals, emergency services and banks around the world that use Windows were affected and millions of Microsoft users were made offline.

The rollout drives almost a year from a large global failure to a faulty update of crowdstrike from cybersecurity. It affects airlines, hospitals, emergency services and banks all over the world. (AFP via Getty Images)
The rollout drives almost a year from a large global failure to a faulty update of crowdstrike from cybersecurity. It affects airlines, hospitals, emergency services and banks all over the world. (AFP via Getty Images)

It led to a crash of around 8.5 million Windows systems, and companies lost billions of dollars, among other things, due to the productivity of productivity.

As a result, Microsoft vowes to strengthen his cyber resistance.

“We rationalize the unexpected restart experience,” said David Weston, Vice President for Enterprise and Os Security, Microsoft in a blog post. “We also add a quick machine recovery, a recovery mechanism for PCs that cannot restart successfully. This change is part of a greater effort to reduce the disturbance in the event of an unexpected restart.”

The new restoration system will be launched on all Windows 11 24H2 devices later this summer, the company said.

According to Microsoft, the rollout shortens the waiting time during the restart to two seconds for most users.

“This is really an attempt to clarify and provide better information and enabling us and customers to really achieve what the core of the problem is so that we can fix it faster”The verge.

“Part of it [is] Only cleaner information about what exactly went wrong, where it is Windows against a component. “

The blue screen was developed in the early 90s, wrote Microsoft developer Raymond Chen in a blog post.

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