Microsoft Has Silently Killed the Blue Screen of Death

The Blue Screen of Death has slowly become a thing of the past as Microsoft, who has invested heavily in the new Windows 8, has apparently managed to improve its operating system in such a way that users are seldom provided with this kind of error.

Basically, the Blue Screen of Death was more of a feature of older Windows versions, especially due to buggy drivers that caused all kinds of problems on a number of workstations.

Just like ZDNet points out, Windows XP is probably the OS version that got on average the most BSODs, pretty much due to driver issues causing incompatibility between apps and the installed hardware.

Device drivers were responsible for no less than 85 percent of the BSODs showing up on Windows XP (which is still running on about 31 percent of computers worldwide), so Microsoft has focused on this problem much more in the next Windows versions.

Redmond has eventually implemented a series of tools capable of detecting and fixing driver errors, thus letting users know about potential users that might occur and giving them the option to download and install official drivers from hardware manufacturers.

As a result, both Windows 7 and Windows 8 are much more stable, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Blue Screen of Death has disappeared completely from the Windows platform.

Statistics provided by web analytics service Soluto earlier this year revealed that Windows 8 users are getting on average 0.28 BSODs every month, while Windows 7 returns only 0.33 such errors during the same period.

And since you might be seeing the Blue Screen of Death much rarely than before, Microsoft has also redesigned it in Windows 8, so that you won’t get so angry when your monitor turns blue. A smiley face is apparently worth a thousand words these days.