Goodbye, Blue Screen Of Death!  It's been a hallmark of PC
gaming (and, well, PC using) for years now: when Windows really
does something wrong, users have been greeted by the dreaded
"blue screen of death", crashing their system. No more!
Instead, it appears as though the next version of Microsoft's
operating system, Windows 8, does something similar to the new
Xbox 360 S console: give the same error, but change it just
enough to make it seem different.  In this case, the blue screen
of death has been replaced with a black screen of death, and
obscure error reports swapped out with a simpler, larger "Your
Computer Needs To Restart" message.  So you can still use the
acronym "bsod", and it still means something's gone horribly
wrong, but a colour change and cut-down on jargon makes it all
seem just that little bit less critical.  Microsoft switches to
Black Screen Of Death (BSoD) for Windows 8 [Winrumors]