The former head of Microsoft’s Bill Gates (Bill Gates) sometimes makes it rather interesting and revealing statement. This is what happened this time. During an interview at Harvard University, he admitted that the decision to use the login key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del was a mistake, according to The Verge .

During the event, the host asked Gates about whose idea it was, and what guided the creator. Bill without thinking twice, said that the decision was a mistake. Such a frank admission of being aroused in the audience laugh.

“Initially we wanted to use for the logon operation of a button, but the guy who was at the time responsible for the design of the keyboard IBM, threw our idea of ​​a special button” – Gates said.

Recall that this combination, which was originally designed to restart the computer, came up with engineer David Bradley (David Bradley), working on the creation of IBM PC. A little earlier, Mr. Bradley said that he came up with a combination, but it was Bill Gates made it famous.

Despite the fact that the Ctrl + Alt + Del at the time was a mistake, the software giant is in no hurry to send her to retire. In the new Microsoft operating system, this combination allows you to lock your PC and open the Task Manager.

It is remarkable, but it’s not the only mistake that Bill Gates admitted. Earlier this year, he called an early strategy to gain mobile market failure. Steve Ballmer, who recently announced his decision to resign as CEO Microsoft, also admitted one of his mistakes.

“I deeply regret that, in the early 2000s, we were so passionate about the work on Windows Vista, which failed to give proper attention to a new class of devices – phones,” – Steve Ballmer said at a recent meeting of financial analysts.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has decided to leave the post . He will retire in the next 12 months. In the remainder of the term Ballmer will continue to lead the company during the transition period and will help Microsoft find a new CEO. In Redmond did not disclose the reasons for leaving the head, but many experts are inclined to believe that Ballmer is not leaving the company at will.

Analysts at Moor Insights & Strategy stated that the main reason for the dismissal of Steve Ballmer has served failure tablet Surface RT, the company is actively opposes the iPad and which lost nearly a billion dollars. “He was either fired or put in a situation where it is understood that it is better to leave yourself” – analysts say.

It is known that by the end of II quarter 2013 Microsoft wrote off $ 900 million due to poor sales Surface. The vendor has not yet revealed the data of the plates, however, analysts said, since the start of sales of the autumn of 2012 by March 2013 Microsoft has managed to sell only 900,000 Surface.

Steve Ballmer will be remembered erroneous predictions about the fate of the next generation of personal gadgets. So, in 2007, after the presentation, he predicted the iPhone device failure, stating that “it is very expensive for such a device, considering that this was no phone business.” According to Ballmer, the iPhone was not the market outlook: “To compete with Apple, we are not going to. We have sold millions (copies of OS Windows Mobile), and Apple is no number. “

In 2010, after the presentation of iPad tablet Steve Ballmer criticized Apple, saying that it was too small and uncomfortable device that is difficult to use separately from the PC.

On the background of the news of the resignation Ballmer Microsoft shares trading on the NASDAQ began with the sharp growth. After the opening of trading shares began to be sold at $ 34.39 compared to $ 32.39 the previous day, showing a 9% increase.

CEO himself prefers not to comment on the reasons for leaving the corporation. However, when asked what he most regrets while working at Microsoft, CEO called Windows Vista.

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Steve Ballmer has officially announced his decision to resign as CEO (CEO) of Microsoft in the next 12 months, at which he worked for over 13 years, from January 2000. Until the actual care Ballmer, however, will continue to lead the corporation and at the same time look for a worthy successor. Also, the selection committee of the new CEO, who appointed the board of directors of Microsoft, will include John Thompson as a leader, Chuck Socks (Chairman of the Audit Committee), Steve Lucio (chairman of the compensation committee) and Bill Gates (chairman).

Steve Ballmer is widely known for casual users because of its sense of humor and vivid presentations, which he conducted, and it is, for sure, will be one of the losses in connection with his departure. A letter sent out to all employees on the eve of Steve corporation quickly became public: in his own words, Ballmer proud of the work done. Still acting CEO recalled that during the years of his leadership of the corporation’s capitalization increased from $ 7.5 million to $ 78 billion, and the number of employees – from 30 percent to nearly 100,000.

Speaking about his decision, Steve claims that he was hard on him to go, but he does it for the interests of the company and I am confident that the best days are still waiting for Microsoft to come. Well, maybe not all the steps Microsoft in recent years were correct, but that Ballmer gave the nod to the reorganization of the company, it was imperative for the recent hulking giant, to respond quickly to market changes. His successor will have to continue the begun business and strengthen the company’s presence in the market of mobile gadgets – I wonder who he will be, and whether he has successfully promoted in the mass grandiose ideas Microsoft?

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and COO Kevin Turner discussed the pace of sales Surface tablets and other gadgets on Windows. Part of the above was published on The Verge.

“We have released more devices than we can sell,” – said Ballmer, when we are talking about the pace of sales Surface RT.

Microsoft recently reduced the price of tablets on Windows RT by 30% worldwide. Ballmer and Turner admitted that the cancellation of the huge profits – $ 900 million in the second quarter of 2013 – are connected with the need to dump to sell the remaining Surface RT.

It is easy to calculate that Microsoft has ordered manufacturers of components for the production of components to assembly 6000000 Surface RT. The disappointing figures, because the first three quarters of the world was sold 1-1.5 million such devices. This estimate of analysts. Microsoft itself is in no hurry to boast sales of tablets. As soon as it became aware of the story last Friday, the company fell by 11.4%, or $ 34 billion

The last hope is the case with Microsoft Surface – corporate clients, who are used to Windows, spent money on training employees to work with this system and it will not change with the Apple tablet, or, God forbid, with Android-powered devices. But these expectations do not seem to come true: preboards “Gazprom” Alexey Miller has been preferred to iPad for mobile control of Russia’s largest corporation. Although he could buy some Surface Pro for Windows 8 and install it on the program from your desktop workstation.

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