For many PC users, the Blue Screen of Death has been around longer than they have.

Introduced 40 years ago for Windows 1.0, the color Microsoft-Blue would fill your screen when your indows-based PC went on the fritz. The screen has undergone some changes since Windows was introduced back in the dawn of the personal computing era, but for a very long time now we’ve seen the frowny face emoji over the text “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you.”

Under that would be listed some arcane error code that you could report to your nearest Geek Squad or other tech-savvy support person in the hopes that you could prevent that particular error from reoccurring.

But that familiar – if unwelcome – field of blue will soon be the stuff of history for those using Windows 11 operating system on their PCs.

Just because the BSOD is being retired doesn’t mean that your computer won’t crash anymore, of course. You just get to look at a different screen of death. Now your errant PC will flash a black screen of death. (You can still abbreviate it BSOD, so that’s efficient.)

Microsoft said in a blog post Friday that the new black screen of death, which it calls a “simplified UI for unexpected restarts,” will appear in its place starting later this summer on all Windows 11, version 24H2 devices.

According to the company, the new black screen of death will show the stop code and faulty system driver, allowing IT admins to more quickly identify the issue that caused the crash, rather than having to use debugging software.

Beyond the look of the error page, the change is part of Microsoft’s Windows Resiliency Initiative, which is designed to increase resiliency and security in Windows systems. The move is in response to last year’s massive outage generated by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, which sent a software update that unintentionally crippled the computers of around 8 million people using Windows software all around the world.

Microsoft said that the new black screen of death is part of “streamlining the unexpected restart experience” and aiding in “quick machine recovery.” The aim is to reduce recovery time to 2 seconds following a PC crash.

While the color change may or may not matter to users, that time savings alone could be a boon. Going by personal experience with an older laptop that could accurately be described as “janky,” I’d say that it would be worth saying goodbye to the blues to get this old thing up and running again after yet another crash.