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Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake

Posted by timothy on from the tilde-backspace-left-arrow-was-taken dept.

theodp writes "If he'd had his druthers, Bill Gates told a Harvard audience, Ctrl+Alt+Del would never have seen the light of day. However, an IBM keyboard designer didn't want to give Microsoft a single button to start things up, and thus the iconic three-finger-salute was born."

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  1. If Bill had his way by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    - only web search engine would be Bing and only available on Metro
    - your cell phone would only work with skype
    - web pages would only work with IE
    - Internet would run NetBIOS, not TCP/IP
    - all web servers would need to have a Xenix license
    - web sites would be programmed in Visual Basic
    - all crops would be grown with Monsanto seeds

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