Microsoft is replacing the iconic Blue Screen of Death with a new Black Screen of Death in Windows 11. The update brings a cleaner look, faster restart times, and aims to make crashes rarer - so ...

All of them were blue by coincidence, according to a blog post by Mr. Chen. The change to a black screen comes in the wake of last year’s outage generated by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike.

Microsoft allegedly developed a new system crash screen back during the initial development of Windows 11, but apparently discarded those changes—or at least postponed them for a later release.