Martin Nobel has a great timeline of the changes, starting with that very first "Matrix-esque" screen back in Windows 1.0, to the warning Windows users of the 90s and 2000s are likely acutely ...

What once was blue will now be black, but as well as reassuring the concerned, it'll also provide more information for troubleshooting.

Microsoft is killing Windows' infamous Blue Screen of Death, but that doesn't mean the end of unexpected errors.

The developer build of Windows 8 shows that Microsoft's next major operating system will have a new, and somewhat sad, blue screen of death.