Just a coincidence or a call-back to borks of Windows past?
Richard Speed Tue 2 Feb 2021 // 12:07 UTC Share
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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.