đź”™ Throwback Thursday for 2025-06-26
Microsoft's BSOD is getting a makeover—say hello to the Black Screen of Death!
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🟦 + ⬛️ One story that caught my eye this week
It seems that Microsoft will be changing the classic (mid 90s era) Blue Sreen of Death (BSOD) to…
[checks notes]
Black Screen of Dealth. (so, still BSOD?)
Techmeme: Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer” (Tom Warren/The Verge)
By Tom Warren / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
RIP BSOD (1993-2025)
Long Live BSOD (2025-????)
(and my commentary on Blacksky… I mean Bluesky)
Long Live #BSOD (1993-2025). And yet, photo memes of digital signage failures displaying post-2025 update will still be considered canonical for the same hashtag. Here's to vision models being extended and tuned to discern authentically classic blue from the new black. https://www.google.com/search?q=bsod&udm=2
— Jay Cuthrell (@cuthrell.com) 2025-06-26T19:57:13.942Z
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