 "Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake")
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has admitted that forcing users to press the Control-Alt-Delete key combination to log into a computer was a mistake. Gates made the statement in an interview at a Harvard fund raising campaign.
“It was a mistake,” Gates admits to an audience. “We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t wanna give us our single button.”
When asked whether Bill Gates could have made something else of himself had he not dropped out of Harvard, Gates responded rather cheekily, “I’ve been here twice before. One time Mark Zuckerberg was in the audience and I got him to drop out.” He also said that he taken too many courses at the University and that he couldn’t really be considered a drop-out.
David Bradley, designer of the original IBM PC, invented the ‘Control-Alt-Delete’ combo. Bradley has said in a past interview, that he may have invented it but it was Gates who made it famous.
Bill Gates was given an Honorary degree from Harvard in 2007.
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