32 years later, Windows 11’s infamous Blue Screen of Death is going ‘green’, but why

Green Screen of Death

If there’s one thing that can be called the most annoying – and there are a few – about the Windows operating system, is the infamous Blue Screen of Death. The good news – in some sense – is that Microsoft is finally removing it. Don’t get too excited – it is just the colour and nothing more. The error message will continue to exist, except it will appear in green colour and blue as it has been for years – 32 years to be exact.

Why the colour green
Microsoft announced the Green Screen of the error message via an official blog post announcing the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3653. According to the post, the company has started testing the new preview for unexpected restarts of Windows 11. The company says that this new colour and more streamlined UI are to make it appear more seamless and match the design principles of the Windows 11 operating system.

“We’ve simplified your experience while preserving the technical information on the screen. As a reminder, for Windows Insiders this appears as a “green screen”, reads the blog post.

Can go Black too
Microsoft has mentioned the green colour, but several other reports mention that the green colour can eventually change to black. Now there’s no concrete information available on that part. But Microsoft is certainly making the big change that it should have made over the years – maybe not in the way that we were expecting.

Rollout of the new Green Screen is happening in the beta channel that includes Dev, Canary and Beta channels. A stable rollout is expected to happen with the future Windows 11 updates.