"It was a mistake"

"That Americans know how to get funds for their projects is not something that I am going to reveal now. And one of the most effective ways is to get someone important to support you in some way, along with a nice contribution with lots of zeros."

Thus David Rubenstein, during the Harvard University fundraising campaign, had a lengthy interview with Bill Gates, of almost an hour long.

The headline of an in-depth interview

In this interview Bill Gates talks about many topics, personal, professional and, of course, about Microsoft at length.

However, the Internet and the blogosphere have been left with an anecdote that has drawn powerful attention and that begins when Ruebnstein asks Gates why he must use three fingers to log into Windows, to which Bill Gates answers that it was an error by IBM, because he had asked for one-key login

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This statement is acknowledged by the inventor of the combination, IBM engineer David Bradley, author of the witty phrase I do it I could have made it up, but Bill has made it famous. Indicating that IBM presented it as a proposal, but who decided to use it was Microsoft itself; and to which, a few years later, Bradley added, why did they also use the combination for the operating system log-in? I don&39;t know"

"This is how Bill Gates explained why the adoption was made We wanted you to have to do something with the keyboard that would tell you that you were at a very low level of software - it&39;s actually embedded in the systems hardware. "

The reality is that the use of Ctr + Alt + Del has become quite a social icon, and is recognized as the Universal combination to bring a locked Windows back to life. With a capacity for evocation and recognition by users as important as the company logo itself.

"And that is a mistake ."

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