After 40 years of plaguing Windows users, Microsoft is getting rid of the infamous Blue Screen of Death. The BSOD has been around since the original Windows 1.0 beta release back in 1985 and has been the go-to for error reports and crashes.
Microsoft says the BSOD will soon be replaced by a simple black screen that you’d usually see when updating your Windows 11 (or when the PC decides to freeze, restart, and update it without bothering to tell you).
The best part of this new Black Screen of Death is that the display will list the stop code and faulty system driver responsible for the issue on your PC. So you won’t have to dive into the system to grab those crash dump files in order to see what the issue is.
Microsoft says the screen is just an improvement overall. The company says it is just cleaner information on what exactly went wrong, where it’s Windows versus a component.
The feature is expected to roll out in the coming weeks alongside a new Quick Machine Recovery tool. This tool is designed to restore Windows machines that can’t boot up for some reason or another. It is a deeper system tool that aims to push Microsoft’s “Windows Resiliency Initiative”.
