{"id":87671,"date":"2013-09-27T00:51:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T22:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=87671"},"modified":"2013-09-27T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T10:03:04","slug":"bill-gates-says-control-alt-delete-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87671-bill-gates-says-control-alt-delete-was-a-mistake.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates says Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> co-founder has admitted for the first time that using the key combination of Control-Alt-Delete to log into a PC was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Gates commented on the so-called &#8220;three finger salute&#8221; in a talk at a Harvard University fundraising event, video of which was posted online Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The awkward combination has been a feature of the <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> operating system since the earliest days of personal computers. It is a key input that allows users to log in, access the task manager and reboot the computer. Gates said it was not his original choice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a mistake,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the <a title=\"IBM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361432-International-Business-Machines-(IBM)\">IBM<\/a> keyboard design didn&#8217;t wanna give us our single button.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87497-microsoft-ie-11-preview.html\">Microsoft IE 11 preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87493-firefox-24-for-pc-and-android.html\">Firefox 24 for PC and Android<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87477-steamos-announced-by-valve.html\">SteamOS announced by Valve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87242-windows-8-1-release-date-pricing-announced.html\">Windows 8.1 release date, pricing announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder has admitted for the first time that using the key combination of Control-Alt-Delete to log into a PC was a mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":76242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4870,835,123,7979,807],"class_list":["post-87671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-bill-gates","tag-ibm","tag-microsoft","tag-quicknews","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87701,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87671\/revisions\/87701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}