Microsoft decided to launch Windows 11 with a Black Screen of Death rather than blue, but that's set to change soon.
As Ars Technica reports, buried in the release notes for the latest Beta and Release Preview Insider builds (version 22000.346) of the operating system is the following bullet point: "We changed the screen color to blue when a device stops working or a stop error occurs as in previous versions of Windows."
It means that the term BSOD will once again mean Blue Screen of Death, which is really how it should have been all along. The reason why Microsoft made it black for Windows 11 was thought to be because it matched the black backgrounds of the login and shutdown screens, but perhaps it was an oversight seeing as this change is listed as an "improvement."
Anyone frustrated with the news that Microsoft is going to force Windows 11 users to run the Edge browser for certain tasks may see the BSOD more often if they try to circumvent the limitation. According to EdgeDeflector developer Daniel Aleksandersen, the only way to bypass Edge loading in future would require "making destructive changes to Windows."