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                  Bill Gates: Ctrl-Alt-Delete was a 'Mistake'

   by VOA News

   It's something a lot of us do at least once every day before we start
   work or surf the web at home: We press the keyboard combination
   control, alt, delete to log on to our Windows PCs.
   Now, in a candid interview over the weekend at a Harvard University
   interview, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, admits this was a
   "mistake."
   When asked by David Rubenstein, co-chair of the Harvard campaign, why
   someone needs three fingers to turn on the software and computer, Gates
   replied "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 ... It was a
   mistake."
   The audience applauded and laughed at the surprising answer from one of
   the world's richest men.
   Gates went on to say the company did "some clever stuff."
   "We were able to experiment with a lot of stuff, but more on the
   software side than the hardware," he said.
   See the entire interview below.

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References

   1. file://www.youtube.com/embed/cBHJ-8Bch4E
   2. http://www.voanews.com/content/bill-gates-control-alt-delete-a-mistake/1758355.html