Posted on 09/26/2013 3:34:53 PM PDT by shego
If you pressed Control-Alt-Delete to log on before reading this, Bill Gates says he's sorry.
The Microsoft founder says the triple-key login should have been made easier, à la Apple's Macs, but that a designer insisted on the more complicated step.
"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," Gates said Saturday during a question-and-answer session to launch a Harvard University fund-raising campaign. His comments have gained attention since a video of his Harvard Q&A was posted on YouTube on Tuesday....
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Control alt del and msconfig made PC handymen like me thousands of dollars helping people who didn’t know them.
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As a matter of fact, in modern Windows, you can use the forward slash internally in software. You just can't use it at the command line, because it confuses the command interpreter, which expects forward-slash to introduce command options.
It’s a little weird, though, because the IBM keyboard was designed well before ctrl-alt-del was ever used for logging in.
Escape works on DOS apps that have been written to pay attention to it. Just added that functionality to some tools we have at work. I don’t anybody in the Windows world bothers to capture it.
Is he drunk?
I never logged on with ctr-alt-delete.
But then, Gates thought no one would ever need more than 640 k memory either.
So he’s learned to blame others for his screw-ups from his idol?
Bill Gates should be spending every waking public moment apologizing for the obscenity that is Windows 8.
It is single-handedly killing the PC market.
They are buried where their relatives want to bury them.
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20 or so years later when they finally die.
Ctrl-Shift-ESC brings up the Task Manager, at least in XP, which is the latest I’ve got.
It rebooted back in the day. Which actually shows it wasn’t a mistake, who the heck wants a one key any cat can step on it reboot.
The “ESC” key is to escape from whole screen video pages.
Give that man a cigar - that is the way it worked on the first PCs.
Make that apologizing for everything this side of 95.
i will never forget when i was having trouble with the computer a 3 year old said “hit escape!” . i almoat fell over.
I never logged on with ctr-alt-delete.
The rationale for using the three-finger salute to login was to keep people from being fooled into revealing their password by entering it into a spoofed login dialog. The idea was that Ctrl-Alt-Del would not be trappable except by the OS, so the OS would always be able to show a legitimate login dialog.
Control-Alt-Delete and pulling the plug out of the wall solves about 95% of tech issues with Windows PCs.
It’s still the way to log in if the PC is part of a network domain.
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