
For the first time in almost 40 years, the new design will abandon the traditional blue and frowning emoticon in favor of a simplified black screen.
Simplified BSOD is more like a black screen, which is shown during Windows updating. But it will contain a stop code and a faulty system driver.
The publication showed how such a message would look.
“This is really an attempt to make clarity and provide more detailed information, as well as allow us and customers to really get to the essence of the problem so that we can quickly correct it,” the Vice President of the Security of Enterprises and the OSO in Microsoft quotes David Weiston. According to him, partially this is simply a more clear information about what exactly went wrong.
Microsoft claims to release this new BSOD design in the Windows 11 update later this summer. Changes in BSOD are part of the wider Microsoft efforts to increase Windows stability.




