'CtrlAltDelete' inventor retires from IBM

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NoOneButYou1975 29 January 2004 17:30 · Member since January 2003

http://www.yahoo.com/s/152381

yet the inventor of the "any" key is still hard at work.......:)

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Mr Mercury 29 January 2004 17:39 · Member since July 2001

""I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous," Bradley said.

Gates didn't laugh. The key combination also is used when software, such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, fails."

That should read when every version of Microsoft's Windows operating system fails, as it invariably does.

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Mr Mercury 29 January 2004 19:07 · Member since July 2001

LOL Barry - spot on

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dragonzflame 29 January 2004 22:45 · Member since July 2002

Dirty old Windows ME. I have that, and by gosh does it suck.

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NoOneButYou1975 29 January 2004 22:50 · Member since January 2003

updated to XP :)

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Mayboy 30 January 2004 05:39 · Member since November 2002

Ive upgraded to XP too :)

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look what they've done to claudi.... 30 January 2004 07:49 · Member since January 2002

lol mr mercury!!! i also read that quote... he's so right... *sigh*

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Guy 30 January 2004 08:22 · Member since July 2003

"in fact everything gates brings out has flaws,mainly security etc"

Until there's something better, we'll all continue using it.

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Guy 30 January 2004 09:47 · Member since July 2003

Don't, it's only a slightly modified XP, in the very early alpha stages. There's no beta of the real Longhorn, yet.

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Mr Mercury 30 January 2004 12:05 · Member since July 2001

"Don't, it's only a slightly modified XP, in the very early alpha stages"

Oh so that'll be the one that will be on sale soon

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