The blue screen has made its presence known on numerous occasions, filling monitor screens at airports, malls, Times Square, and even during Bill Gates' unveiling of Windows 98 at Comdex in 1998.

Interestingly, it looks like the initial blue screen of death was not about death at ... or rather the infamous Windows 98 BSOD that happened during a keynote address at the annual COMDEX trade ...

A crash in Windows that causes the computer to lock up, and the screen turns entirely blue. The solution to the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) is to reboot. See Black Screen of Death and Red Ring of ...