The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons of attention because his public mea ...

(No worries – it’s a good germ.) Are you familiar with CTRL+ALT+DELETE? If you use a PC, you probably know this combination of keys will “Force Quit” programs that freeze up and become ...

You may not have ever thought about it, but the far-too-often-used keyboard combination of Control + Alt + Delete had to have been brought into existence by some random coder at some point in ...

Bill Gates has shaterred our illusions once more by revealing that the beloved "Control+Alt+Delete" command was nothing more than a mistake. During a discussion at Harvard over the weekend ...

To Microsoft’s eternal embarrassment, the most well-known Windows shortcut is the one you use when everything’s gone wrong: Control-Alt-Delete. But what about if you’re using a Mac?

This month, Tim Buckley returned to an infamous, four-panel comic from his series Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD ... became a menacing, mocking meme embraced by 4chan’s most imaginative trolls and shared ...

In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here's the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place. In the spring of 1981, David Bradley was part ...

The result was one of the most well known key combinations around: Ctrl-Alt-Delete. It forces obstinate computers to restart when they will no longer follow other commands. Bradley, 55 ...

If you pressed Control-Alt-Delete to log on before reading this, Bill Gates says he’s sorry. The Microsoft founder says the triple-key login should have been made easier, à la Apple’s Macs ...