Steve Ballmer wrote the text for the Windows 3.1x BSOD, which was more a warning of a poorly behaving application. Actual crashes resulted in a black screen of death.
Windows 95 displayed a kernel error screen, which could be considered a blue screen of death. However, it allowed users to ignore the error, making it not a true crash.
The Windows NT kernel error screen is considered unrecoverable. The screen provides engineers with helpful data to diagnose the cause of the error.
The term 'blue screen of death' was not commonly used at Microsoft; it was referred to as a 'blue screen' or a 'bug-check.' The color scheme for the error screen was inspired by John Vert's dev machine and text editor.
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