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Control-Alt-Delete command a mistake - Bill Gates
« on: September 26, 2013, 11:15:52 pm »
Ever thought the key combination of Ctrl-Alt-Delete was a little awkward for every time you want to restart your computer? Well the former head of Microsoft, Bill Gates, says that it wasn’t meant to be like that, and blames IBM for it.

In an interview at Harvard last week, Gates said that they needed a key combination to signal to the hardware to start the operating system, preventing other applications from faking a login prompt and stealing a password, The Verge explains.

“We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t wanna give us our single button,” said Gates. “It was a mistake.”

Read more and watch the video interview below:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right-click/bill-gates-calls-awkward-control-alt-delete-command-141004822.html

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