Death Becomes It: Who put the Blue in the Blue Screen of Death?

Just a coincidence or a call-back to borks of Windows past?
Richard Speed
Tue 2 Feb 2021 // 12:07 UTC
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Bork!Bork!Bork! Even after a year of readers sending in photos taken of error screens they've seen out and about for
The Reg's Bork column, the infamous Windows "Blue Screen of Death" has remained a mainstay. However, have you wondered why blue is the colour?
Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took to his YouTube channel over the weekend to give us his view on matters.
Firstly, "I never once heard the term 'blue screen of death' at Microsoft," he recalled, "We called it primarily just a blue-screen or, more frequently, a bug-check."

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