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Mischievous Monday Mornings: Where did ctrl+alt+delete come from?

Boris Written on 28th July 2008                                                                                                              7 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Hear David Bradley explain how and when he came up with the infamous windows shortcut. So funny to see Bill Gates’ humorless reaction here…

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  1. By Wouter on Jul 28, 2008

    The YouTube movie isn’t working anymore, I found another version here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cIkLIwiG8WA

    EDIT: nevermind, it works now! :P

    Reply

  2. By Joop Dorresteijn on Jul 28, 2008

    I was the one who created alt-ctrl-del, but it was Bill Gates who made the icon famous

    ouch!

    Reply

  3. By Patrick de Laive on Jul 28, 2008

    Super funny!

    Reply

  4. By Flawless on Jul 29, 2008

    Well I saw vista’s and made it for XP LOL…

    Reply

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