{"id":656,"date":"2025-04-01T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:05:11","slug":"microsoft-is-redesigning-the-windows-bsod-and-it-might-change-to-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft has announced that it\u2019s overhauling its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error message in Windows 11. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in favor of a simplified screen that looks a lot more like the black screen you see when Windows is performing an update. It\u2019s not immediately clear if this new BSOD will remain as a black screen once Microsoft ships the final version of this update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe\u2019re previewing a new, more streamlined UI for unexpected restarts which better aligns with Windows 11 design principles and supports our goal of getting users back into productivity as fast as possible,\u201d explains Microsoft in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2025\/03\/28\/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3653-beta-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> about the change. \u201cWe\u2019ve simplified your experience while preserving the technical information on the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Windows Insiders can try out the new BSOD in test versions of the Beta, Dev, and Canary Channels, but it will appear as a green screen in these test builds before it\u2019s eventually shipped as a black or blue screen. It\u2019s the first major change to the BSOD since Microsoft added a sad face to the screen in Windows 8. This new design includes the BSOD error or faulty driver, and simply states \u201cyour device ran into a problem and needs to restart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft did briefly turn the BSOD to a black screen in test builds of Windows 11 in 2021, but the company then reverted back to the blue screen it had been using since Windows 8. It looks like this new BSOD will be rolled out to the existing Windows 11 version 24H2 soon, and we\u2019ve reached out to Microsoft for more information on whether it\u2019s switching to a black screen instead of a blue one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has announced that it\u2019s overhauling its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error message in Windows 11. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[507,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-microsoft","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114261440883990852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}