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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Methinks he got lucky that his dumb idea got blocked.
What about NUM LOCK? Useless!!!
Begs the question why he didn’t fix it.
C-alt-D doesn’t cause a reboot, it just opens the task manager and other tools. I think it is fine the way it is because you never hit it by accident.
Giving away too much money for queers and overseas abortions does that, billy ....
-PJ
Yup! Also, Ctrl-Alt-Del is iconic now.
Sometimes it really is better to be lucky than good...
They have made it easier now - right click on the task bar and it gives you the option to open the task manager.
A plane crashes on the border of Canada and the US ... in which country were the survivors buried ?
I never used NumLock until I got a laptop. Use it all the time now...
Yeah I like it just fine the way it is.
Numlock is really useful, especially if you’re on a shared system and some people like to 10 key numbers and others like to use those as arrows. Scroll lock on the other hand...
I dare you to figure out how to completely turn off your Win 8.1 machine.
If any one has ever worked with DOS 2.0 (yeah, yeah, ancient I know) in assembler, there were a lot of screwy things in there. Always had to remember sides and cylinders were base 0 and sectors were base 1. 12-bit FATs were screwy as well with the center byte reversed. I could go on but the mistake IBM made was hiring Bill Gates with that sweet heart contract they gave him.
You mean NumLock is useless in that you never turn it off, right? :)
Ah, but it used to.
Now how about that placebo key up in the upper left corner of the keyboard, the one that says “Esc” and does nothing at all?
I used to tap that key over and over when I accidently clicked on a wrong link or watched an hour glass icon for too long, thinking the key was an “escape”, like it would simply stop the computer from doing whatever it was doing and simply return me to where I was. It took me years to figure out it was actually just a dead key that does absolutely nothing. Okay, the joke was on me, ha ha.
Is everybody at Microsoft still getting a big laugh out of that prank?
It was just a ripoff of Ctrl-Open Apple-Delete, anyway.
Bill Gates... isn’t he the guy who said we’d never need more than 640k of RAM?
Because it's needed so damned often in Windows!
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