September 23, 2017

Bill Gates Regrets And Comments On The Ctrl-Alt-Del Key- Bloomberg Forum

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft admits that the Ctrl-Alt-Del feature for interrupting a function is an inconvenient maneuver at Bloomberg Global Business Forum on Wednesday.

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He also said “Well, I’m not sure you can go back in life and change small things in your life without putting other things at risk. If I could make one small edit, I’d make that a single key”.

This isn’t the first time Gates has repented about the usage of three keys for force interrupting a function. In 2013 he blamed IBM for refusing to put a single key. At an event at Harvard University, he told “We could have had a single button. But the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t want to give us our single button”.

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Even today he blames IBM engineers by saying, “The IBM PC hardware keyboard only had one way that it could get a guaranteed interrupt generated. So, clearly, the people involved, they should have put another key on it to make that work. A lot of machines these days do have that as a more obvious function.”

Have you ever felt the same that there should be a single key instead of using Ctrl-Alt-Del? Do share your views in the comment section below.

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