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.

Windows’ infamous ’blue screen of death’ will soon turn black Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life ...

ANKARA, TURKIYE - JULY 19: In this photo illustration the blue screen of death errors on computer screens are viewed due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides ...

ANKARA, TURKIYE - JULY 19: In this photo illustration the blue screen of death errors on computer screens are viewed due to the global communications outage caused by CrowdStrike, which provides ...

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 against a very ...