Bill Gates: CTRL-ALT-DEL Was a Mistake, Originally Wanted a Single Button

Sounds like that would've been a bigger mistake

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates acknowledged that the "CTRL-ALT-DEL" means of logging into your Windows PC was a mistake, although done with the best of intentions.

Gates, interviewed at Harvard University last week, said that the awkward three-finger combination was actually implemented for security purposes.

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[Killazontherun]

What an asshole. No, it was a decent design that adds redundancy to make it difficult to accidentally call up the STM. The button that makes me want to take a nuke to the MS campus and every other tech hub on the planet is the Power down button.