Microsoft founder Bill Gates: Ctrl-Alt-
Del could have been done with just
ONE button
BILL Gates has admitted that the Ctrl-
Alt-Del function for Windows PCs was
a mistake and that it could have been
done with just a SINGLE button The Microsoft co-founder said the three
button shortcut, designed originally to re-
boot a computer, was an error that stuck
throughout the years.
Mr Gates, 57, said he had originally
favoured the Ctrl-Alt-Esc combination but
later preferred accessing the function at
the press of just one button.
The shortcut, used to log onto PCs and
shut down programs, was invented by
computer engineer David Bradley who
worked on the original IBM PC.
Speaking in an interview at Harvard
University, Mr Gates said: "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 - it was a
mistake."
The Microsoft co-founder said he was in
favour of a single button for the function
[REUTERS]
It was a mistake
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
Mr Bradley previously said during IBM's
20th anniversary that he may have
invented the function but Mr Gates
"made it famous".
The engineer said he had devised the
function because it was difficult to press
those three keys together accidentally.
Mr Gates added: "We did some very
clever things- the IBM PC character set,
usually you have 128 characters like the
lower case and upper case but we took
the upper ones and put like suit symbols
in- we were able to experiment with a lot
of stuff but more on the software side
and not the hardware."

SOURCE : www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/432418/Microsoft-founder-Bill-Gates-Ctrl-Alt-Del-could-have-been-done-with-just-ONE-button

Bully for you, BillyG.
I think ctrl-alt-del is pretty wizard.
Also, I don't think the dude who foisted the
frankenstein that is vista on us should give lectures
on the merits of simplicity in design.

alotofgrace: i learnt that all mistakes in art are designs

very true