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Microsoft's 40-Year-Old Blue Screen Morphs into Black

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The infamous frowning face and QR code are gone, replaced by a concise message and a percentage indicator for the restart process. This update is part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative, introduced after the 2024 CrowdStrike incident that disrupted millions of systems worldwide.

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Microsoft's iconic 40-year-old Blue Screen of Death is now black, aiming to streamline error recovery. This change follows the 2024 CrowdStrike outage that crashed 8.5 million devices.