The Blue Screen of Death — often shortened to BSOD — is Windows’ way of saying something went wrong at a system level, and it had to stop everything to avoid bigger problems.

Microsoft warned customers this week that their systems might crash with a blue screen error caused by a secure kernel fatal error after installing Windows updates ...

We're all familiar with the Windows BSOD, but Microsoft is now making it simpler in appearance—and getting rid of the iconic blue color in the process.