NewsBot Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Bill Gates had a chat with David Rubenstein, Harvard Campaign co-chair for a Harvard fundraising campaign. In that Gates revealed that it was a mistake to force users to use hold down “Ctrl+Alt+Del†to log into their computers and he also blamed IBM for doing so. “You want to have something you do with the keyboard that is signaling to a very low level of the software — actually hard-coded in the hardware — that it really is bringing in the operating system you expect, instead of just a funny piece of software that puts up a screen that looks like a log-in screen, and then it listens to your password and then it’s able to do that,†Gates said. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 If you are not attached to a Domain (i.e. a corporate network) or don't have the logon screen with password activated, then Ctrl-Alt-Del does no such thing at all: in Windows XP it brings up the Task Manager instead. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I'd never even heard of that before I read Gates' "mistake" quote. Not surprised he considers it a mistake, it seems really stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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