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IT Home reported on August 2:CrowdStrike Update causes blue screen of death on 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide.It also allows more people to explore the secrets of the origin of Windows system blue screen。

Veteran developer Raymond Chen published a blog post in the "The Old New Thing" column on Microsoft's DevBlogs website, unveiling the mystery of the origin of the Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).

Who originally wrote the blue screen interface? There are three answers: Steve Ballmer, John Vert, and Raymond Chen.

Let me first say the conclusion. Three people developed three versions. Ballmer first wrote the blue screen text part for the Windows 3.1 system. IT Home attaches the Windows blue screen author information as follows:

Windows 3.1

On Windows 3.1, users can enter the blue screen interface by using the Ctrl + Alt + Del key combination. Chen jokingly calls it the "unhappy blue screen". When users press CTRL + ATL + DEL, the blue screen will be triggered. When users are not satisfied with the performance of the computer, it can help pause the Windows session.

Windows 3.1 system failures were not blue screens, but black screens, with untimely black screen crashes, and the text description was written by Ballmer (Ballmer did not write the code, just the words in the message）。

Windows NT

The Blue Screen of Death for Windows NT was written by John Vert.

Windows 95

Raymond Chen stated that the early versions of the Windows 95 blue screen information were not written by him, but he continued to improve and release the final version of the Windows 95 blue screen.

Chen wrote:

For unknown reasons, some people claim that Microsoft's blue screen is a 30-year-old mystery.

The current debate is about who wrote the blue screen interface. There are three answers: Steve Ballmer, John Vert, and me (Raymond Chen).

But in reality, there is no conflict. There are three different blue screens, each with a different author.