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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. Re:Redundant keys by TheReaperD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Posting to erase moderation mistake.

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