Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. With the entire world seemingly still trying to deal with what ...

Californians flipping open work PCs were greeted with the dreaded “Blue Screen of Death” on Friday morning as one of the largest cyber outages in history mostly bricked Microsoft systems across the ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is killing off its iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The screen is something most Windows users (unfortunately) are all too familiar with—the azure shade that appears ...

There’s nothing more startling than your PC suddenly locking up and crashing to a Blue Screen of Death. Otherwise known as a Blue Screen, BSOD, or within the walls of Microsoft, a bug check screen, ...

Microsoft is switching the “Blue Screen of Death” — to a black screen. The tech giant says the change helps to “streamline the unexpected restart experience.” Microsoft has launched a slew of changes ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) plans to replace its notorious blue screen of death from Windows and replace it with a black one as the tech giant retools its security features following last summer's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. As if things weren’t bad enough for Microsoft Windows users ...

Q: What causes the blue screen errors that freezes everything on my Windows computer? A: The blue screen of death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system ...

In this post, we will see what causes the Blue Screen of Death and how to fix it on a Windows 11/10 PC. Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), often referred to as a ‘Blue Screen‘ or a ‘Stop Error‘ screen is a ...

Until a fix is rolled out through Windows Update, Microsoft resolved this issue via Known Issue Rollback (KIR), a feature that reverses buggy non-security updates delivered via Windows Update. This ...

After a long and storied history, the BSOD is being replaced. WIRED takes a trip down memory lane to wave goodbye to the iconic screen we all love to hate. Along with scrapping the blue (in favor of a ...