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Windows 'Blue Screen of Death' will be dead and buried this summer
Microsoft is removing its infamous error screen from Windows devices after 40 years
In an interview with The Verge, David Weston, vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, termed this new screen as "an attempt on clarity and providing better information and allowing us and customers to really get to what the core of the issue is so we can fix it faster". Microsoft is essentially intending to make users' lives easier when it comes to troubleshooting, as the old Blue Screen of Death wouldn't always show the specific error during a crash dump. Both of these measures are part of an effort from Microsoft to help prevent, or at least minimize, the effects of large-scale outages, as seen with last year's Crowdstrike incident that left millions of Windows-powered machines booting to a Blue Screen of Death.
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