The “Blue Death Screen” died from Microsoft after 40 years of momentum, jokes and shirts

Like Pudding Pops and Benetton Suppts, another icon is gone in the 1980s. After 40 years of submitting tragic news about a PC Windows users, “Blue Death Screen” from Microsoft is notorious Get away. The black death screen will replace it, even if it is without Face.

The blue screen of death was present since the appearance of Windows 1.0 in 1985. The text on the screen differs, but it is sometimes accompanied by a frown face consisting of colon and left arches. 🙁

Microsoft says the new black screen, which you call “a simplified user interface for unexpected restart”, will appear in its place starting later this summer on all Windows 11 devices, version 24H2.

The black screen of death will display the icon and the wrong system driver, allowing it to attackers to determine the problem that caused the disruption more quickly, instead of having to use error correction programs.

It is not just a cosmetic change, it’s part of Microsoft’s Windows Flexibility InitiativeIt is designed to increase flexibility and safety in Windows systems. in Blog post on ThursdayMicrosoft said that the new black screen of death is part of “simplifying an unexpected restart experience” and an assistant at “Recovery Machine Recovery”. The goal is to reduce the recovery time to two seconds after the computer is broken.

The Windows Flexible initiative was launched after the 2024 Crowdstrike interruption, which caused the systems not connected to many companies, airports and government services. More than 8 million devices were affected.

Pop culture icon

For 40 years, the blue screen to die on its way to pop culture, with A lot of memes, Subreddit devoted to itAnd Shirts And other elements that carry their image.

When Microsoft has suffered from global information technology interruption due to the Crowdstrike security update in July 2024, one X user is called today today Day of the School BlueShare a photo of the conference room full of laptops, all of which show the blue screen of death.

Something about the unambiguous blue color of the error screen mixed with garlic symbols – and the reminder that the computer that was shattered from time to time – made it a symbol.

“My husband bought a blue screen from the T -shirt and wore it to work at the Microsoft Corporate headquarters a day,” said CNET GAEL FASHINGBAUER COOPER. “I wondered for a minute if anyone would be beats, but on the first day he wore, several people came in the cafeteria to complete it and ask where they can buy one for themselves.”