The dreaded “blue screen of death” will soon be a memory of the past. This error message by which is reported a crash of the Windows system has raged for almost 40 years. Microsoft has suggested this change for years, but it is confirmed: the crash screen will finally be deleted in an update of Windows 11 which will be available later this summer.
This does not mean that there will never be a crash again. On the contrary, all computers, whatever they are, end up planting one day, so there must be a kind of error screen.
Blue to black screen
Microsoft therefore goes to a “black screen of death”. This new crash screen will be black, as its name suggests, and there will be no little sad face or QR code. It will simply be a black screen with a short message indicating to the users that they must restart their device.
The new black screen similar to the one displayed during an update of Windows will indicate the stop code and the system pilot that contributed to the crash: two information that will help computer administrators or technical support.
The new black screen will make its debut at the same time as the “Quick Machine Recovery” feature. This tool is designed to restore the machines that do not start. These changes follow the “Crowdstrike” incident which caused the computer megapanne of more than 8 million Windows devices last year. This massive breakdown has affected banks, airlines and large companies.
