Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d at some point in their computing life. Now, after more than 40 years of being set against a very recognizable blue, the updated error message will soon be displayed across a black background.<\/p>\n
The changes to the notorious error screen come as part of broader efforts by Microsoft to improve the resiliency<\/a> of the Windows operating system in the wake of last year\u2019s CrowdStrike incident<\/a>, which crashed millions of Windows machines worldwide.<\/p>\n \u201cNow it\u2019s easier than ever to navigate unexpected restarts and recover faster,\u201d Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft wrote in a Wednesday announcement.<\/p>\n As part of that effort, Microsoft says it\u2019s \u201cstreamlining\u201d what users experience when encountering \u201cunexpected restarts\u201d that cause disruptions. And that means a makeover to the infamous error screen.<\/p>\n Beyond the now-black background, Windows\u2019 new \u201cscreen of death\u201d has a slightly shorter message. It\u2019s also no longer accompanied by a frowning face \u2014 and instead shows a percentage completed for the restart process.<\/p>\n Microsoft says this \u201csimplified\u201d user interface for unexpected restarts will be available later this summer on all of its Windows 11 (version 24H2) devices.<\/p>\n And for PCs that may not restart successfully, Microsoft on Wednesday also said it\u2019s adding a \u201cquick machine recovery\u201d mechanism. The will be particularly useful for during a widespread outage, the tech giant noted, as Microsoft \u201ccan broadly deploy targeted remediations\u201d and automate fixes with this new mechanism \u201cwithout requiring complex manual intervention from IT.\u201d<\/p>\n Microsoft said this quick machine recovery will also be \u201cgenerally available\u201d later this summer on Window 11 \u2014 with additional capabilities set to launch later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d at some point…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,57,158,61,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-18066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-u-s-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114753326705115792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}