Microsoft Innovation: Emulating the Bold Interface Move by Apple?

July 2, 2025

This dinobaby wrote this tiny essay without any help from smart software. Not even hallucinating gradient descents can match these bold innovations.

Bold. Decisive. Innovative. Forward leaning. Have I covered the adjectives used to communicate “real” innovation? I needed these and more to capture my reaction to the information in “Forget the Blue Screen of Death – Windows Is Replacing It with an Even More Terrifying Black Screen of Death.”

Yep, terrifying. I don’t feel terrified when my monitors display a warning. I guess some people do.

The write up reports:

Microsoft is replacing the Windows 11 Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) with a Black Screen of Death, after decades of the latter’s presence on multiple Windows iterations. It apparently wants to provide more clarity and concise information to help troubleshoot user errors easily.

The important aspect of this bold decision to change the color of an alert screen may be Apple color envy.

Apple itself said, “Apple Introduces a Delightful and Elegant New Software Design.” The innovation was… changing colors and channeling Windows Vista.

Let’s recap. Microsoft makes an alert screen black. Apple changes its colors.

Peak innovation. I guess that is what happens when artificial intelligence does not deliver.

Stephen E Arnold, July 2, 2025

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Innovation, Microsoft, News

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