Dissatisfied with Windows 3.1 failure message, Mr. Ballmer created an almost loveable iconic failure message



From DailyTech:

While his days at Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) are over and he's engrossed in a second career as owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, the legacy and memories of former CEO Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer continues to live on at his former firm in unexpected ways.

This week a veteran Microsoft developer and principal software engineer, Raymond Chen, revealed for the first time that Steve Ballmer was responsible for crafting perhaps the most iconic failure message of all time -- the instructional text that appeared when you pressed or CTRL+ALT+DEL or if a system failure transported you to this unfortunate place.

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