BSOD (Blue Screen of Death)

Blue screen of death

Blue screen of death (BSOD, English: Blue Screen Death), or sometimes called "blue screen" (bluescreen) alone is the popular term for the Microsoft Windows screen that appear when subjected to a system error (or called a stop error by Microsoft). BSOD's Windows NT, 2000, XP, or Vista is usually more serious than previous Windows.
There are some things that caused this BSOD. Among these tools are not good drivers, memory errors, the registry is corrupted or the use of DLL files that do not match. Various forms have BSOD on all Windows operating systems since Windows 3.1. BSOD is the replacement for the black screen of death (black screen of death) that appears on OS / 2 and MS-DOS. [1] In early versions of Windows Vista also have the red screen of death or the red screen of death, used at the boot loader errors.

Popularity BSOD

Considered the most popular events on the BSOD is when Bill Gates presents the Windows 98, which when it was still not released, at COMDEX, on 20 April 1998. Computers are used for demonstration suddenly crash and display a BSOD when Bill Gates's assistant, Chris Caposella connecting a scanner to the computer (the record of this event can be seen here). It is what triggered laughter and applause from the audience, and this incident is very embarrassing Microsoft. Bill Gates himself when it said, "Surely this is why we have not sold Windows 98".