Skype, iPhone home, blue screen of death…: Tech we said goodbye to in 2025

Familiar sounds, buttons, and platforms disappeared, replaced by new priorities, signalling how quickly innovation moves and ...
How-To Geek on MSN

This is the most useful Windows troubleshooting tool you keep overlooking

Troubleshooting a Windows PC can oftentimes be quite a bore—and depending on your specific issue, it can either be pretty ...

Sevile: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death

Snapped by an eagle-eyed Register reader, this traditional Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) was found in the delightful ...
iTech Hacks

How to Enable Quick Machine Recovery to Fix Boot Problems on Windows 11

Stuck in a Windows 11 boot loop? Here's how to enable Quick Machine Recovery to automatically repair startup crashes ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again

Talk about a powerful faux pas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A company that's been around as long as Microsoft will inevitably ...
HotHardware

Windows 11 Is Testing A New Trick To Thwart Annoying BSOD Crashes

Windows Insiders are getting early access to an upcoming Windows 11 feature that is intended to improve system reliability by scanning system memory following a system crash. The optional feature is ...
Macworld

Apple pokes fun at Windows PCs in ‘The Underdogs: BSOD’

Apple has released “The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death),” a video short that skillfully pokes fun at a Microsoft problem from last year, when a serious Windows computer crash occurred due to a ...
PC World

Windows 11 officially kills the Blue Screen of Death in latest update

Microsoft has released update KB5062660 for Windows 11 24H2, and that means the iconic “Blue Screen of Death” has officially been replaced by the long-awaited “Black Screen of Death” (which ...
Computerworld

No more blue screens: How Microsoft is making Windows more resilient

The Crowdstrike disaster in July 2024 gave Microsoft a black eye. How could third-party security software fail so spectacularly — to the point that millions of Windows PCs became unbootable unless ...
CNET

Microsoft's 'Blue Screen of Death' Dies After 40 Years: Meet Its Replacement

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...
Inc

After 33 Years, Microsoft Just Made a Bittersweet Announcement About 1 of Its Most Iconic ‘Features’

There is some debate over when Microsoft first used what would come to be known as the “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) to indicate that Windows had encountered a ...
UPI

Microsoft's 'blue screen of death' has died at 40

June 28 (UPI) --The infamous "blue screen of death," which featured a text frown and terrified those who experienced it, no longer exists after Microsoft killed it in ...