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Bill Gates Regrets Creating 'Control-Alt-Delete' Function

Bill Gates, the personal computing pioneer and billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, said in an interview recently that he regrets the decision to make the keyboard combination "Control-Alt-Delete" central on Windows computers. The key combination served as a command both to log in to a computer and force it to quit if it froze up. It was a confusing task for first-time users, and for most people would require two hands to execute. "If I could make one small edit, I'd make that a single key," said Gates at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York. He had made a similar statement back in 2013 at a Harvard University event. "We could have had a single button. But the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't want to give us our single button." Apple's Mac computer have always logged in with a single click. Yet, Gates also conceded, "I'm not sure you can go back and change small things in your life without putting the other things at risk."

Potential Preaching Angles: While the co-founder of Microsoft may regret some of his design decisions years later (even some of the most iconic in the era of personal computing), we can rest assured that God has not and will not ever second guess his design of creation. Each and every one of God's children is fearfully and wonderfully made-and they will remain that way.

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