The Gadget Blog » Bill Gates http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog Gadget News - Gadget Reviews - Gadget Tech Specs Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Classic: “Gates Made Ctrl+Alt+Del Famous” http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/classic-gates-made-ctrlaltdel-famous/ http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/classic-gates-made-ctrlaltdel-famous/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:30:18 +0000 Rico Mossesgeld http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/?p=5375 Post from: The Gadget Blog

]]> The quality betrays the following video’s age, but dissing Microsoft for coming out with unreliable OSes is a timeless practice. Here’s how David Bradely, inventor of Ctrl+Alt+Del, gave Bill Gates the rhetorical smackdown, during the 20th anniversary celebration of the IBM PC:

I honestly wonder what was going through Gates’ head, after Bradely joked that the Microsoft founder was responsible for making the key combination famous (implying of course, the numerous crashes that necessitated Ctrl+Alt+Del)? Was he the socially awkward geek unable to produce a witty comeback? So like yours truly, except for the billions of dollars in net worth of course! All I know is that “we are not amused” would have been really fitting.

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]]> Well duh. That makes sense, like Steve Ballmer banning Google and iPods for his kids. Then again, Gates and Ballmer could be missing out on crucial market research opportunities.

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