Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

Here’s what you need to know about the death of the Blue Screen of Death. An ignominious Windows staple for 40 years. Though Windows has changed pretty radically since version 1.0 came out in ...

Windows shared the new Black Screen of Death in a blog post, yet failed to even acknowledge the cosmic shift it has triggered. It simply calls this a “simplified UI,” because a blue background ...