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Who Wrote the Code for Windows' 'Blue Screen of Death'?

Who wrote the code for Windows' notorious "Blue Screen of Death? It's "been a source of some contention," writes SFGate: A Microsoft developer blog post from Raymond Chen in 2014 said that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1. That very benig...

That very benign post led to countless stories from tech media claiming Ballmer was the inventor of the "Blue Screen of Death." That, in turn, prompted a follow-up developer blog post from Chen titled " Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen of death...." Chen then later tried to claim he was responsible for the "Blue Screen of Death," saying he coded it into Windows 95. No one challenged Chen's 2014 self-attribution, until 2021, when former Microsoft developer Dave Plummer stepped in.

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