Steve Ballmer Created Original Blue Screen of Death Message

• Sep 6, 2014

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CommanderFrank

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We all knew our favorite ex-CEO from Microsoft was good at something, but until now, we weren’t really sure of exactly what. Steve Ballmer will be now and forever known as the father of the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Everyone is good at something.

But it is Steve Ballmer's original BSoD that has taken on a rather rosy glow of nostalgia amongst aging PC users as they look back on the Microsoft operating systems of yesteryear, including Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

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Thanks, Steve.

 

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He did have a thing for blue screens....

 

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Hmmm this does not bode well for the Clippers... :|

 

• Sep 7, 2014

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And another webpage that doesn't care that this is no BSOD and doesn't even care to read the original source, because it's such a nice clickbait headline, right?

It's just a text that explains options after pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/02/10554253.aspx

 

• Sep 8, 2014

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I remember seeing a BSOD on a server (back in 2001) and the code was: DEAD BEEF. I laughed when I saw that.