Talk about a powerful faux pas. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A company that's been around as long as Microsoft will inevitably ...

Windows Insiders are getting early access to an upcoming Windows 11 feature that is intended to improve system reliability by scanning system memory following a system crash. The optional feature is ...

Microsoft has started testing a new feature that prompts Windows 11 users to run a memory scan when logging in after a blue screen of death (BSOD). These notifications will be displayed whenever the ...

Apple has released “The Underdogs: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death),” a video short that skillfully pokes fun at a Microsoft problem from last year, when a serious Windows computer crash occurred due to a ...

Winners & losers: Apple's new eight-minute ad takes a thinly veiled jab at last year's CrowdStrike meltdown – the software update that crashed Windows systems running critical infrastructure around ...

Apple's "Underdogs" have returned in a new video, with the BetterBag crew weathering the storm of a convention battered by the Blue Screen of Death thanks to Mac security. Each year, Apple releases an ...

A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) that fails to create a memory dump file and leaves no trace in the Event Viewer is a frustrating scenario when trying to troubleshoot the issue. This absence of evidence ...

Microsoft has released update KB5062660 for Windows 11 24H2, and that means the iconic “Blue Screen of Death” has officially been replaced by the long-awaited “Black Screen of Death” (which ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is now starting to change its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to a newly ...

The Crowdstrike disaster in July 2024 gave Microsoft a black eye. How could third-party security software fail so spectacularly — to the point that millions of Windows PCs became unbootable unless ...

Farewell, BSOD! We knew you well. What Windows user hasn’t seen the infamous Blue Screen of Death? Its appearance has always been accompanied by groans and frequently by curses. But soon, like it or ...

The bad news is they've ditched the smiley face. The good news is we get to keep the acronym. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...