Say Goodbye To The Infamous "BSOD" Soon

[DVDR_Dog]

Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Years of Frowny-Faces​

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[hacxx]

The dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has been a symbol of frustration for decades. If it's finally being phased out or redesigned, it's a big step toward a more user-friendly and resilient Windows experience.

 

[ThumperTM]

Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Years of Frowny-Faces​

-->Click Here for the CNET Article<--

 

[ubuysa]

It's just a cosmetic change. It's now a black screen with minimal information on - although the stop code is still displayed at the bottom.

 

[DVDR_Dog]

It's just a cosmetic change. It's now a black screen with minimal information on - although the stop code is still displayed at the bottom.

Just be glad you still get a stop code. Windows help has slowly gone poof, not that it was worth very much in its prime. I for one think the new crash screen should display a and be truthful.

 

[Diguelo]

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RIP "Blue Screen Of Death.

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You have been a good friend and dare I say it a really good source of income for myself and many other like minded individuals. I will miss the long talks with Micorsoft Technicians who are straight off the street and havent a clue what they are saying if it wasnt macroed in front of them on the screen.

Gone are the times when Id get a phone call in the middle of the night "My Computers died it wont let me do anything just gives me a blue screen on startup"

As an old friend is passing from this world to the next money spinner for Microsoft Repair system, I recall many times the vague and wonderous long string of pointless numbers and memory locations that couldnt possibly exist. The long nights of wondering where all this junk came from, then I recall Windows 3.1 and the days of looking up tables of ram and thinking to myself "One day some of these coders are going to leaern how their drivers are supposed to work or this programs supposed to act."

Early experimenting with "DEV C++" (Still available for those in need of a challenge) the times when I was sure that the addressing was perfect and then my friend the BSOD would remind me I wasnt as brilliant as I thought I was.

The times when "Dr Watson" (early form of management crash utility) in windows also sadly missed and the times when the two would contradict each other and spend long minutes arguing on who was right and who was wrong while us mere mortals would sit watching a black or blue screen sometimes red as well for those important moments in a machines history.

And so as this much abused program that was made to make life with a PC easier to manage, I bid fairwell to my old friend.

REST IN BYTES MY FRIEND.