A tribute to Dr. Dave Bradley

CTRL+ALT+DEL programmer

[swizz]

I just wanted to thank Dr. Dave Bradley for what he did, he gave us the most precious tool against windows...

htp://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-01-29-david-bradley-retires_x.htm

At a 20-year celebration for the IBM PC, Bradley was on a panel with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion turned to the keys.

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

I really laughed with that comment :)

- Steven

[bill]

I don't get it...how is this a tool against Windows?

[sidyadav]

lol, yeah, it was actually made for windows, which doesn't make it against windows, if it was made as a bug/virus/spyware which closes all the programs when pressing "Ctrl + Alt + Delete", then we'd call it against windows, and that too, if it was made without Microsoft's concern.

But its a pretty cool feature, stops me re-starting Windows every time it crashes! so indeed, its as tool made to help windows, not exactly against windows.

Sid

[TheDoctor]

it was actually made for windows

It predates Windows (hence the comment about Bradley inventing it, but Gates making it famous). Windows, believe it or not, follows industry conventions on this one.

[Herenvardo]

Ctrl+Alt+Del is very older than Windows. It's an meregency system designed to work when everything fail.
MS, in its supreme arrogance, tried to to capture the key combination, trying to close the problematic process instead of rebooting. But they almost destroyed it!
With WinXP, when you need a reboot, not even Ctrl+Alt+Del nor power button work! MS made us go back to the times when emergency rebooting was as easy as un-plugging alimentation and restoring it after some seconds.
Ctrl+Alt+Del was not made neither against nor for Windows. Windows was made against Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Once again, MS only gave us more problems than they solved.

Greetings,
Herenvardö

[jackson]

Once again, MS only gave us more problems than they solved.

Got to agree there. So much for productivity and making life "easier" - ergo Word and Access. Let's watch them complicate the hell out of XML. The beta versions of Office 2003 eluded to that simplicity. Now its become commercial, it appears that M$ is set to put as much distance between between the simplicity and elegance of the XML standard and the quagmire making up Office's so-called XML compliant apps.

'Ctrl-Alt-Delete' was an exercise in simplicity.