There is no mystery over who wrote the Blue Screen of Death, despite what some may want you to believe - The Old New Thing

Somehow, there is a claim of a 30-year mystery surrounding Microsoft’s Blue Screen of Death. The argument goes that there are three conflicting sources of authorship: Steve Ballmer, John Vert, and me. But really, there is no conflict. There are three different blue-colored screens, and each has a different author. First is the Windows 3.1 Ctrl+Alt+Del screen, which is a blue screen of unhappiness,