'It was a mistake,' Gates admits to an audience left laughing at his honesty. Gates explains the key combination is designed to prevent other apps from faking the login prompt and stealing a password.
If you've used an old version of the software or use Windows at work then you will have experienced the odd requirement. In an interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Gates discusses his early days building Microsoft and the all-important Control-Alt-Delete decision. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has finally admitted that forcing users to press the Control-Alt-Delete key combination to log into a PC was a mistake.
