Gates told an audience at Harvard last week that he wishes there had been a single button, not a process that forced a rather awkward three-key combination.īut PCWorld thinks 'Ctrl-Alt-Del was the best mistake to happen to PCs':
The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type 'Ctrl-Alt-Delete' at start-up is getting tons of attention because his public mea culpas are rather rare.
Those are the hands of David Bradley, an original member of the IBM PC team and the inventor of the control-alt-delete function, hitting the right keys.