BILL GATES says CTRL-ALT-DELETE was a mistake. SHUT UP, BILL.

Bill Gates! The fuck!, bro? Shouldn’t you be taking pies to face and funding programs that turn human turds into beef patties or some shit? Not spitting such heresy about ctrl-alt-delete. That fucking combination was essential to my growing up as a Windows-cursing PC gamer. Where would I be without it?! Eh?!

The keyboard combo that is Control-Alt-Delete may have become iconic—but according to Bill Gates it was all just a big mistake.

Talking to the Harvard fundraising campaign, Gates admitted that the series of button presses was far from intentional:

It was a mistake… We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t wanna give us our single button.

Indeed, responsibility for Ctrl-Alt-Delete rests with David Bradley, an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC. It’s an enduring legacy, too; the button combo still works in Windows 8 to lock a PC or run Task Manager. Quite a long history for a mistake. [Harvard via GeekWire viaVerge]

[Gizmodo]