And for PCs that may not restart successfully, Microsoft on Wednesday also said it’s adding a “quick machine recovery” mechanism. It will be particularly useful during a widespread outage, the tech ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. With the entire world seemingly still trying to deal with what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. As if things weren’t bad enough for Microsoft Windows users ...

Q: What causes the blue screen errors that freezes everything on my Windows computer? A: The blue screen of death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it is killing off its iconic Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). The screen is something most Windows users (unfortunately) are all too familiar with—the azure shade that appears ...

There’s nothing more startling than your PC suddenly locking up and crashing to a Blue Screen of Death. Otherwise known as a Blue Screen, BSOD, or within the walls of Microsoft, a bug check screen, ...

The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error ...

After a long and storied history, the BSOD is being replaced. WIRED takes a trip down memory lane to wave goodbye to the iconic screen we all love to hate. Along with scrapping the blue (in favor of a ...

Apple today shared a new "Blue Screen of Death" ad that appears to mock a major Windows computer outage that occurred last year, following a faulty CrowdStrike security update. Macs were unaffected, ...

The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one. By Sopan Deb For millennials, blue can be a significant color. It is associated with clues left ...