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

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

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?

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then new operating system. Development took two years after the Windows announcement in 1983, leading skeptics to call it “ vaporware.” See EDN ...