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September 21, 2017 02:59 pm GMT

If Bill Gates could go back in time, he'd fix 'ControlAltDelete'

Bill Gates has one regret: The two-handed maneuver "Control+Alt+Delete" shortcut that was once required to reboot any Windows computer.

He publicly conceded this Wednesday while on stage at Bloomberg's Global Business Forum, in New York City, CNNMoney reported.

"If I could make one small edit, I'd make that a single key," said Gates. 

Previously, Gate explained that IBM programmers in the 1980s were partly responsible for the un-user friendly mishap. IBM designed the keyboard layout for PCs at the time, and according to Gates in 2013, "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." Read more...

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