The Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) is a term all too familiar to Windows users. When Windows fatally crashes, it turns the screen blue and displays a bunch of archaic hexadecimal numbers on the screen, then either locks up or reboots.
This was a huge problem in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, and earlier versions of Windows XP. Later service packs for Windows XP and updated drivers from hardware manufacturers greatly reduced the frequency of this on Windows XP. On Windows Vista, between December 2006 and 8/8/2009, I only had ONE BSOD. Vista was by far, the most reliable version of Windows created so far. Windows 7 falls FAR behind.
The Macintosh has a similar screen, but it’s not blue and therefore is not called the BSOD. Instead, it shows a dialog box with an icon of a bomb. It’s essentially the same thing though.
I’ll post an image later of a BSOD later. I don’t want to crash my system right now (as if I ever wanted to).