<b>Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake. He blames IBM for the ...

Terrence Miao - 2013-09-28 04:31:29+1000 - Updated: 2013-09-28 19:17:20+1000

Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake. He blames IBM for the so-called "three-fingered salute", claiming that he had favoured a single button.

David Bradley, an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC, invented the combination which was originally designed to reboot a PC. "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."

Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, blames IBM

Michael Poloni - 2013-09-28 13:24:02+1000

Because we need a login button?? Pfft.

A power button to turn the damn thing on, and then a login button to make it useable.

Innovation would have been turning the Windows start button (which he did get on to keyboards) into the login button. REUSE!!!

Oleg Kiorsak - 2013-09-28 15:03:10+1000 - Updated: 2013-09-28 15:04:11+1000

why "a maitake" it's still a very useful combination - bring up task manager and kill misbehaving crap

and one of the very few advantages Windows still has over Mac OS X
(i wish it had an equivalent - to be able - using only keyboard and irrespective of how screw the "GUI" state is - to bring the list of running apps for "culling" puposes...