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30/10/2014

Some reasons why “Modern C++” adopted the generic programming

As Bjarne Stroustrup points out,

30/10/2014

Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, blames IBM

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. In an interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Gates discusses his early days building Microsoft and the all-important Control-Alt-Delete decision. If you've used an old version of the software or use Windows at work then you will have experienced the odd requirement. Gates explains the key combination is designed to prevent other apps from faking the login prompt and stealing a password.

"It was a mistake," Gates admits to an audience left laughing at his honesty. "We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single button." David Bradley, an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC, invented the combination which was originally designed to reboot a PC. "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous," Bradley said in an interview previously, leaving Bill Gates looking rather awkward. To this day the combination still exists in Windows 8, allowing users to lock a machine or access the task manager. While Windows 8 defaults to a new login screen, it's still possible to use the traditional Control-Alt-Delete requirement and a number of businesses running on Windows XP and Windows 7 will still use it every day.

30/10/2014

Yosemite OS with Latest Features

Apple introduces Yosemite OS. Yosemite OS comes with new flat and translucent user interface, iCloud Drive, new informative notification center and more...

11/10/2014

Going on two decades of ridicule
The Onion, self-branded "America's Finest News Source," has been making fun of Microsoft -- and, in particular, Bill Gates -- since at least 1996, according to its online archive. Here are nine of what we've judged to be the best efforts.

11/10/2014

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11/10/2014

Windows 10
Everything You need to Know About Microsoft's New Operating System - Windows 10 :
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/

It’s a humbling and amazing thing to work on Windows, which is used by over 1.5 billion people in every country of the world. From kids playing with computers for the first time, to writers and jou...