Ballmer wrote the BSOD text

Arantor

Ballmer PERSONALLY wrote Windows 3.1's blue screen text

VinDuv

Force quit dialog != BSOD.
Fail.

The original post is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/02/10554253.aspx

Luhmann

+1 for linking to a site that has a link to tdwtf in it.

boomzilla

Raymond Chen is a long time fan of TDWTF. IIRC, he had some hand in getting it set up. I think it was a link from him that brought me here originally.

blakeyrat

Wow. Not only did they not link the source, they got the story utterly wrong.

Oh wait. It's The Register. They wouldn't want to break their perfect record of being utterly wrong.

mott555

Raymond's blog is how I ended up here. I read several MSDN blogs in college, especially The Old New Thing, until they screwed the portal up and made things impossible to find anything unless you're into mediocre foreign-language posts by bloggers nobody cares about.

Arantor

@blakeyrat said:

Wow. Not only did they not link the source, they got the story utterly wrong.

Oh wait. It's The Register. They wouldn't want to break their perfect record of being utterly wrong.

Why you do think I didn't comment on the article beyond paraphrasing the title and linking it?

KillaCoder

I got here from Jeff Atwood's blog

Yamikuronue

@VinDuv said:

Force quit dialog != BSOD.

But it's blue! And a screen! And involves killing!

Arantor

No, it involves asking nicely since old Windows didn't know what 'pre-emptive' meant.

dkf

Really old Windows hardly even grasped what multitasking meant. Pre-3 Windows really was shitty. (Fortunately for me, I never tried Win v1; from what I've heard about it, I would've hated it intensely.)