The Blue Screen of Death is Dead. Long Live the Black Screen of Death.

The last thing Windows users want to see has gotten an upgrade. The “blue screen of death,” or BSOD, has persisted for forty years as a notification of systems failure. Sometimes, it meant a simple reset was required, other times it meant that your entire system and any saved work on it were irrevocably lost. 

Microsoft’s replacement for the BSOD in Windows is now a “black screen of death,” so the abbreviation still works, but it offers a more descriptive display of which processes caused the error. Rather than sit agitatedly while the opaque systems processes tried to resolve themselves, users can now expect a specific error message, and a Quick Machine Recovery feature to help access data from non-functioning PCs. 

It’s hard to determine how well something works when its intended purpose is to tell you that things aren’t working well, but, ideally the new Black Screen of Death will help Windows users and IT admins alike get to the bottom of work-halting errors. 

We hope you won’t encounter the BSOD in either of its forms, but if you do, Nodal can help! Contact us today.