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Yes, Bill Gates finally admitted that Ctrl+Alt+Del 'was a mistake,' but it was because the IBM design guy wouldn't give him a single button. At a Harvard fundraising campaign, Harvard Campaign co-chair David Rubenstein, asked Bill Gates, "Why, when I want to turn on my software and computer, do I need to have three fingers on Ctrl+Alt+Delete? What is that -- where does that come from? Whose idea was that?" Ctrl+Alt+DeleteGates began with a "complex" reply, "Basically, because when you turn your computer on, you're gonna see some screens and eventually type your password in - 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 login screen, and then it listens to your password and then it's ab...