Bill Gates

How many times did the Control-Alt-Delete function on Windows saved our lives? Probably too many to count, and people with an aging PC can definitely relate with this. This essential command has been a great part of the entire Windows ecosystem. However, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, wishes that things were different.

No, Bill Gates didn’t want to remove the feature. Instead, he hoped that he could have just done it better.

“If I could make one small edit, I’d make that a single key,” says the tech billionaire at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York.

We might be used to it now, but I’m pretty sure how frustrated we all are the first time we’ve used it. Pressing and holding the keys that are far away from each other is kind of awkward. That’s the reason why uncle Bill thinks that it should have been different by only using a single button. Better yet, Microsoft could’ve also found a single word to call it.

Bill Gates have already addressed this issue back in 2013. In an event in Harvard, Bill Gates went on defense and put the blame to an IBM keyboard designer.

“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.” said Gates.

No matter what the case is, we hope that they won’t change it now because it’s already part of our system to reach that miles-away Delete button to slap freezing PCs back to its consciousness.

Source: CNN

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  1. One big advantage of the 3-button reset/task manager against single button, one would not hit that reset/task manager button accidentally. Before windows came into spotlight, the CTRl+ALT+DEL combo keys is the system reset when your computer hanged up on you.In the 80’s and 90’s, when we were using DOS based applications, there were very few times that the app will hang up for unknown reasons and that combo keys saved our days.