Microsoft Sparks Outrage by Announcing Major Change After 40 Years
It's new Windows Resiliency Initiative prioritizes preventing, managing and recovering from security and reliability incidents, mitigating issues swiftly and providing seamless recovery across the Windows platform. Among the changes outlined in the press release is a new way to navigate unexpected restarts allowing users to recover faster.
'This is really 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,' David Weston, vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, told The Verge. 'Part of it just cleaner information on what exactly went wrong, where it's Windows versus a component.'
"The Windows 11 24H2 release included improvements to crash dump collection which reduced downtime during an unexpected restart to about two seconds for most users," Microsoft said in its release before getting to the part that's upsetting users.
"We're introducing a simplified user interface (UI) that pairs with the shortened experience. The updated UI improves readability and aligns better with Windows 11 design principles, while preserving the technical information on the screen for when it is needed," the release said.
While fans are looking forward to understanding the issue at hand...they're not too pleased Microsoft is doing away with the "blue screen of death" in order to achieve a streamlined look with a new black screen.
"I don't get it, why not keep the screen blue so it's easy to tell that there's a problem? The change to showing what exactly went wrong is nice, but that can be done without changing the color," one person said.
"This is the third time Microsoft has announced that they're changing the BSOD from blue to black over the last fifteen years or so. And every time I make the same joke: as long as I don't have to learn any new acronyms," joked another.
"If my computer is going to crash, at least let me feel nostalgic about it," exclaimed another.
RIP blue screen of death.Microsoft Sparks Outrage by Announcing Major Change After 40 Years first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 28, 2025
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