{"id":87872,"date":"2016-04-13T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=87872"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:59:54","slug":"the-windows-blue-screen-of-death-has-changed-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-windows-blue-screen-of-death-has-changed-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windows Blue Screen of Death has changed forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Microsoft<\/strong> plans to update the famous \u201c<strong>Blue Screen of Death<\/strong>\u201d in order to make it more useful for its users.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Reddit<\/strong> user recently uploaded a picture of the new <strong>BSoD<\/strong> for <strong>Windows 10<\/strong>, which shows that we may be seeing the last of the usual blue screen we\u2019ve grown accustomed to over the years. Although it hasn\u2019t yet been launched officially, it is at least in the testing phases. The big difference you\u2019ll notice (from the photo below), is the implementation of a <strong>QR code<\/strong>, which can be scanned in order to learn more about the current problem with your PC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87873\" title=\"o6xx4pll.png\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/o6xx4pll.png-568x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/o6xx4pll.png-568x481.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/o6xx4pll.png-256x216.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/o6xx4pll.png.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you can remember, <strong>Microsoft<\/strong> already updated the blue screen by adding that sad-face emoji. If we don\u2019t count that (and we don\u2019t think we should), this is the first time Microsoft has made any significant alteration to that legendary screen!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re guessing you&#8217;ll be seeing the new <strong>Blue Screen of Death<\/strong> following Windows 10\u2019s Anniversary Update scheduled for late summer this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/12\/microsoft-bsod-qr-code\/#oen7l2Iyugqk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mashable <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft plans to update the famous \u201cBlue Screen of Death\u201d in order to make it more useful for its users. A Reddit user recently uploaded a picture of the new BSoD for Windows 10, which shows that we may be seeing the last of the usual blue screen we\u2019ve grown accustomed to over the years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-windows-blue-screen-of-death-has-changed-forever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Windows Blue Screen of Death has changed forever!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":87874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-87872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329074,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87872\/revisions\/329074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87872"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=87872"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=87872"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=87872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}