The Blue Screen of Death in Windows is iconic to say the least. Almost everyone can look at the blue screen and know that something has gone terribly wrong. No one likes the Blue Screen of Death, and it turns out that one of the people who may be to thank for the screen is Steve Ballmer. Microsoft's Raymond Chen has revealed that Ballmer was responsible for writing the text for the first blue screen.
What Steve Ballmer initially wrote was almost exactly what ended up being included in the final version of the operating system when it shipped out. The Blue Screen of Death has been revised overtime and is now far less common than it was when Ballmer was working on it.