During the interview, Gates also claimed the two companies did some clever things too. “We were able to experiment with a lot of stuff, but more on the software side than the hardware,” said Gates.
“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 … and so we programmed at a low level … it was a mistake,” said Gates.
Gates attended Harvard as an undergraduate. However, he dropped out to start Microsoft. Decades later, the university awarded him an honorary degree.
During an hour-long interview with David Rubenstein, Gates also spoke about his early days at Microsoft, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and his friendship with Warren Buffet.
David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC, is said to have invented the Control-Alt-Delete. During IBM’s 20th anniversary of the IBM PC, Bradley had reportedly said he may have invented alt-control-delete combination for login, but it was Gates who made it famous.
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