Over 40 years, the blue screen of death worked its way into pop culture, with plenty of memes, a subreddit devoted to it, and T-shirts and other items bearing its image.

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June 28 (UPI) --The infamous "blue screen of death," which featured a text frown and terrified those who experienced it, no longer exists after Microsoft killed it in favor of a simple black ...

All right. What's blue, now black and means your computer is starting over? AILSA CHANG, HOST: Would that be the Windows blue screen of death? SHAPIRO: Correct. CHANG: This thing that pops up when ...

Nearly every Windows user has had a run-in with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death” at some point in their computing life.

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The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s.

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?