Windows is famous for its blue screen of death, but back in the early days of the operating system, that familiar blue hue wasn't limited to system-crashing errors alone. Windows 3.x featured a similar CRTL + ALT + DELETE screen that provided you with various options for misbehaving programs. And as it turns out, those options were written by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer himself, who led the company's Systems Division at the time, according to Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen.From Chen's The Old New Thing blog on MSDN:
"He paid a visit to the Windows team to see what they were up to, as is the wont of many executives. When they showed him the Ctrl+Alt+Del feature, he nodded thoughtfully and added, 'This is nice, but I don't like the text of the message. It doesn't sound right to me.'To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here