Microsoft’s iconic ‘blue display’ is not any extra. It appears to be like like this now

Each Home windows consumer has encountered the legendary “Blue Display screen of Loss of life” (or BSOD for brief) at the very least as soon as. Greater than anything, the notorious error display is characterised by its brilliant blue shade, the unhappy smiley face, and the bluntly plain “An error has occurred” message, which all make the display so immediately recognizable.

However Microsoft is now altering the design of the blue error display and breaking with custom. Actually, it gained’t be referred to as a “blue display” anymore as a result of, at the very least within the present preview model of Home windows 11 24H2, the error display is now utterly black. (For Home windows Insiders on check variations, the error display might be inexperienced as a substitute.)

It’s not simply the colour. Different iconic components are additionally apparently being eliminated, as Home windows Newest has found. For instance, it now not shows a tragic smiley face or a QR code. The QR codes have been part of the blue display error design since 2016 with Home windows 10, and are meant to direct customers to related troubleshooting suggestions.

The textual content has additionally been modified. It now says “Your gadget bumped into an issue and must restart,” which is way shorter and fewer ominous or overwhelming. It additionally says “gadget” as a substitute of “PC,” which broadens it to extra than simply desktops and laptops. The particular purpose for the crash (and the error code) is displayed on the backside in a lot smaller textual content.

It’s been coming for a very long time

Microsoft allegedly developed a brand new system crash display again through the preliminary growth of Home windows 11, however apparently discarded these modifications—or at the very least postponed them for a later launch. Maybe that point is now, with preview builds already utilizing the brand new design.

Why does Microsoft even wish to change the BSOD within the first place? That’s anybody’s guess. It’s potential that Microsoft doesn’t like the enduring fame of the blue error display, which in some methods symbolizes the quite a few issues that always include Home windows updates.

If that’s the case, it’s arduous to see the redesigned error display as an enchancment—the brand new look is now much more harking back to a funeral, because it’s utterly black and white. And regardless of the accrued baggage, the acquainted blue display will definitely be missed by long-time Home windows customers, because it has lengthy been a historic a part of the Home windows expertise.

It’s not but identified precisely when the brand new system crash error display might be rolled out to the general public model of Home windows 11. We haven’t but been in a position to uncover it within the official Home windows 11 roadmap, however the change will in all probability be launched in an upcoming Patch Tuesday.