Control-Alt-Delete
September 27, 2013 by staff
Control-Alt-Delete, 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.
Smiling, Gates tried to follow through on the thought, noting it was a basic security feature. But he eventually surrendered to common sense.
“And so we had … we programmed at a low level that you had to … it was a mistake,” he said, throwing up his hands to laughter and applause from the crowd.
Gates defended innovation on the earliest Microsoft software though.
“We did some clever stuff,” he said. “We were able to experiment with a lot of stuff, but more on the software side than the hardware.”
Long the first interface step for PC users, Control-Alt-Delete still exists in Windows 8 as a way of either locking the computer or accessing the control panel. While the system defaults to a log-in screen, users may tweak their settings to return to the old way of logging on to Windows.
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