Turns out that Bill Gates was not the only famous Microsoft identity to be spotted at the Olympic opening ceremony.

Numerous bloggers also observed the cameo played by the so-called Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) - the Windows error screen that flashes up on your computer, signifying that it's time to reboot.

The screen was projected onto the roof of the National Stadium during the grand finale to the four-hour spectacular as veteran Chinese gymnast Li Ning, suspended 70 metres above the stadium floor, "jogged" towards the Olympic torch.

At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs.

The question is what a projection screen is doing at that location?

Photo Extracted from Rivercool and Powerapple Forum.

Previously, it was revealed that organisers digitally inserted computer-enhanced images of some of the firework displays broadcast during the opening ceremony.

The BSoD is a bit of an in-joke among geeks and is often used to poke fun at Microsoft's bug-prone Windows operating system. And now it happen in Beijing 2008. :-)

Or... maybe Lenovo machine are not so stable...