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Control-Alt-Delete 'was a mistake'

  • 27-09-2013 02:07AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭


    Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete 'was a mistake'
    Microsoft's co-founder claims that an IBM keyboard designer created the function and wouldn't allow a single button to access the login screen.

    Speaking in a broad interview at Harvard over the weekend, Gates said that the control-alt-delete function, which allows users to log in to Windows and access the task manager (you may be most familiar with it as the first step in rebooting), was conceived after an IBM keyboard designer wouldn't give him a single button to perform the same chore.

    I feel like I've been living a lie up until this point.

    First the recession, now this!!! :mad:

    Why is the world so cruel?


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Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭RidleyRider


    Preach brother, preach


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    They should have used the 'Any' key.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Can you imagine the amount of tech support calls if you could get at the task manager with one button?
    Followed by the idiots flailing at their keyboards and mouses "ehmehmehmmakecopmputerworkystuffhappenhurrr".

    Slightly more difficult to get at, stops "he who should never have been given a computer" from ruining things.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    Windows 8 and Vista were bigger mistakes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Tulipout


    Did you give reason behind your user name in the other thread?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Dodd


    I fine it hard to beleave it was a mistake

    Control-alt-delete was out before windows was and was to restart a PC if it was not responding.
    Why would anyone make a PC that has one key among the other keys that would shut down the PC.
    You would be bound to shut it down by mistake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    They should have used the 'Any' key.

    Press any key to continue
    *hits power button*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    They should have used the 'Any' key.
    But there isn't any 'Any' key!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Control alt delete a mistake?

    not as big a mistake as "Format C:".............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Ctrl+Shift+Esc FTW!

    But Alt+F4 is quicker!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    nm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Control alt delete a mistake?

    not as big a mistake as "Format C:".............


    The real mistake is system 32, deleting that folder speeds up performance by up to 30%
    don't do this


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Dodd wrote: »
    I fine it hard to beleave it was a mistake

    Control-alt-delete was out before windows was and was to restart a PC if it was not responding.
    Why would anyone make a PC that has one key among the other keys that would shut down the PC.
    You would be bound to shut it down by mistake.


    Yeah but Ctrl+Alt+Esc was out before Ctrl+Alt+Del, and MS developed DOS before they developed Windows.

    The three-finger salute just made it as someone else said that little bit more idiot proof.

    I did actually like the suspend and shutdown function buttons on my keyboard. Actually y'know what keyboard I loved now I think of it?

    This beast :D

    800px-MS_Natural_Keyboard_Pro.JPG


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    They should have used the 'Any' key.

    All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a Tab!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    I think I'll order a Tab


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    iDave wrote: »
    I think I'll order a Tab

    Get in line! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    This 'story' is almost as old as Ctrl+Alt+Delete itself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Gee Bag wrote: »
    Windows 8 and Vista were bigger mistakes

    Only thing wrong with Windows 8 is idiots don't know how to use it!

    Vista is a pile of muck though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    XP still going strong on a lot of office computers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    K.Flyer wrote: »
    XP still going strong on a lot of office computers.

    Yep, I'm using it now while supposedly working!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    petes wrote: »
    Only thing wrong with Windows 8 is idiots don't know how to use it.

    I am without doubt a fvckwit

    Doesn't alter the fact that Windows 8 is rubbish


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Ctrl alt delete is the kick your computer up the arse for being a knob jockey command.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,926 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    K.Flyer wrote: »
    XP still going strong on a lot of office computers.

    Lets see what happens when XP support stops in 2014...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Lets see what happens when XP support stops in 2014...

    I'd imagine the final updates for XP will future proof the OS for the next while unless there's a huge shift in advances in the next 4 years or so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    What if I want to CtrlAltDelete while fapping?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭JJJJNR


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Lets see what happens when XP support stops in 2014...

    It'll be extended to 2015.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    biko wrote: »
    What if I want to CtrlAltDelete while fapping?

    You'll get messy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,730 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    What about keyboard layouts. The qwerty design is not optimal. I believe it was designed for typewriters to stop typists jamming the typwritter by type too fast.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    I'd imagine the final updates for XP will future proof the OS for the next while unless there's a huge shift in advances in the next 4 years or so.

    It's the security issues that start occurring with no patching will be the worry. And there will be criminals out there looking for security issues in XP and will keep them secret until EOL.
    It is a pretty stupid decision for businesses to allow XP machines on the network once EOL is reached. I doubt there will be much issues initially but there's a reason Windows 2000 declined in popularity once it hit EOL and upgrades to XP were necessary.
    It'll be extended to 2015.
    That is fairly unlikely, good news for Server 2003 users is you do have until 2015 to migrate, if you haven't already..

    Nick


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,730 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    I'd imagine the final updates for XP will future proof the OS for the next while unless there's a huge shift in advances in the next 4 years or so.

    It depends what you use it for. It already does not support some games.


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