- Windows BSOD keeps its acronym but changes the B from Blue to Black.
- Windows 11 24H2’s latest Beta, Dev, and Canary build turns BSOD into Green.
- However, Microsoft doesn’t intend to keep it Green and will change it to black in stable versions.
Microsoft’s iconic Blue Screen of Death aka BSOD is famous for all the wrong reasons. It received a revamp in Windows 8 when it was changed from an old, overly descriptive error message to a much smaller “Your PC ran into a problem” text with a sad face emoticon. Well, it looks like Microsoft is revamping Windows’ Blue Screen of Death after 13 years.
Windows’ infamous BSOD will keep its name, but the ‘B’ now stands for Black instead of Blue. While the current crash screen background appears Green in Insider builds, Microsoft is expected to ship the stable 24H2 version with BSOD (Black Screen of Death).
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“We’ve simplified your experience while preserving the technical information on the screen. As a reminder, for Windows Insiders this appears as a “green screen”. This is beginning to roll out to Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2 and higher in the Beta, Dev, and Canary Channels.”
For those who remember, Microsoft changed the BSOD to Black in a Windows insider build back in 2021, but reverted the same. The new text that appears on BSOD is now “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart,” alongside a code for users to figure out why they encountered it in the first place.
Abubakar covers Tech at Beebom, with his passion for technology tracing back to 2011 when he received a Dell Inspiron 5100 as a gift. He’s also a passionate advocate for the right-to-repair movement, believing in empowering users to maintain and extend the life of their devices. Outside the tech world, he enjoys watching anime and exploring his newfound enthusiasm for Japanese cars. In his free time, you’ll often find him immersed in Genshin Impact or researching his next gadget purchase. Before joining Beebom, he contributed to leading publications like Android Police, How-To Geek, and Fossbytes.
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Microsoft was expected to release the next major Windows 10 update, codenamed Redstone 4, in early April but an expected issue has led to a delay in its rollout. Instead of releasing the Redstone 4 update, Microsoft has now started to roll out a new Windows 10 Insider Preview Build (17134) for users in the Fast ring of testers to fix the issue.
The reason behind Redstone 4’s delayed release is to solve some ‘reliability issues’ which could have led to a higher frequency of BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) cases, a well-known issue which causes the Windows PCs to become unresponsive.
In an official blog post , Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar explained the reason behind the update’s delay and revealed that the previous Insider build (17133) had some issues which needed to be addressed so that they do not enter stable builts and create BSOD errors on integral systems.
As Build 17133 progressed through the rings, we discovered some reliability issues we wanted to fix. In certain cases, these reliability issues could have led to a higher percentage of (BSOD) on PCs for example. Instead of creating a Cumulative Update package to service these issues, we decided to create a new build with the fixes included.
The new Windows 10 Insider Preview build (17134) released by Microsoft does not contain any new features, aside from the bug fixes. The new build is currently available for Insider Preview members in the Fast Ring, and will soon be rolled out for the Slow Ring and Release Preview channel. Information obtained by The Verge from internal sources states that the aforesaid build is the final preview version, before the next major Windows 10 update is rolled out.
The upcoming Windows 10 update will most likely be called ‘Windows 10 April 2018 Update’, as Mark Kuenster, the chief of ecosystem technology adoption team within the Windows and devices group, can be clearly heard saying the same in the above video.
The update will bring a whole lot of new features such as Timeline and HDR support, and might also introduce the AI-Centric Windows ML platform for developers to help them create new apps using Microsoft’s machine learning models.
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