The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has served as something of a Grim Reaper for Windows users since the 1980s.

Why change the blue screen to black now? Did the viral images of Times Square rendered useless by the BSOD cause that much reputational harm?

The developer build of Windows 8 shows that Microsoft's next major operating system will have a new, and somewhat sad, blue screen of death.

Microsoft has released Windows 1.0 theme for Windows 10. Download the Windows Throwback theme from Microsoft Store, today.