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Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death
Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?
Windows is adding a quick machine recovery feature, which helps PCs get back online if a restart is unsuccessful. When the BSOD first appeared in the 1985 version of Windows 1.0, it was legal to smoke cigarettes on planes; Germany was two separate countries; HTML code had not been created; Mark Zuckerberg was a baby who likely had not yet grasped the concept of object permanence. But as we go on, we remember the decades of fun and frustration we’ve wrought together, the ominous sapphire screen reflected in our eyes, now but a sepia-toned memory.
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