Windows 11 will show ‘black screen of death’ in case of crashes’

Microsoft is reportedly changing the color of its well-known blue screen of death notifications for Windows crashes from blue to black with Windows 11. For now, only the color of the screen seems to change; the other properties such as the emoji remain identical.

The fact that Microsoft is switching to a black blue screen of death is not yet visible in the current Insider Build version of Windows 11, but is being reported by The Verge. That site has good resources regarding as yet unannounced Microsoft information. The rest of the text and information that Microsoft shows on the crash window would remain unchanged, including sad smiley and the qr code.

Although it only seems to be about the color, one change is worth mentioning: Windows has used blue as a background color since version 1.0, back then to give ‘Incorrect DOS version’ messages. With Windows 3.1, Microsoft introduced the BSOD as a window for system crashes. With this, the company shows a data dump that can help system administrators to find causes of crashes. In 2012, with the arrival of Windows 8, Microsoft added the sad smiley and since 2016 there is the QR code.

In the Insider Build of Windows 11 that Microsoft made available this week, the screen has a green background color. This was also the case with test versions of Windows 10, since 2016. The exact reason for the alleged color change is not known, but the background color when Windows 11 is closed is also black.