We've come a long way from traditional search — and Windows is no exception.

The new design has a black background instead of the traditional blue, which has been used since the feature's introduction in Windows 3.0 in 1990.

Beyond that, Microsoft has been implementing changes to make Windows more resilient in general, ensuring Windows PCs can fix themselves and another outage can’t wreak the same havoc Crowdstrike did.

Microsoft is radically changing the Blue Screen of Death, and it could confuse longtime Windows users.

The Associated Press Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life. Now, after more than 40 years of being set ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All right. What’s blue, now black and means your computer is starting over? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Would that be the Windows blue screen of death? SHAPIRO: Correct. CHANG: This thing ...

An upcoming Windows 11 update will do away with an infamous but longstanding feature of the highly-prevalent operating system.

The times, they are a-changing—at least over at Microsoft, that is. The universally shared Windows user experience of the “blue screen of death” will soon be a thing of the past.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: All right. What's blue, now black and means your computer is starting over? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Would that be the Windows blue screen of death? SHAPIRO: Correct.

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The dreaded “blue screen of death” that has tormented millions of Microsoft Window users for decades is being put to rest.