post on The Old New Thing blog explains, it was none other than former CEO Steve Ballmer that wrote the text of this screen in the first version. He was the head of the Systems division back then, and wanted a different text for this feature:
“Unlike some other executive, Steve took up the challenge, and a few days later, he emailed what he thought the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen should say. The text he came up with was actually quite good, and it went into the product pretty much word for word.”The rest, as they say, is history, and these words soon became famous among Windows enthusiasts. Obviously, the BSOD evolved a lot in subsequent years, and was refined in various versions of the operating system. Newer versions of the platform handle application crashes better than before, and besides, they do not offer as often as they did before. But all said and done, this is one more thing you can thank Ballmer for.]]>
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