re Win95 Keys

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

Hi, Doug: Not yet, and not a peep yet from TTG on xyWin95. But the August
Computer Shopper has a relevant item (p 49) on a new keyboard standard MS
wants to impose. Did MS ever want anything it didn't get? Retooling will cost
manufacturers a bundle that they can't recoup quickly, according to the
writer, David A. Harvey, and is expected to bust some. Keyboards will cost us
$5 or $6 more. Nothing in the piece about notebook keyboards.

The keyboard adds three extra supershift keys to 101-key maps--right and left
"Windows" keys and an "application" key. Why? The writer said that,
countering charges that the new keys are redundant, MS's keyboard product
manager argued that fewer than 30 per cent of Windows users know they can
 to task switch. Duh. If true, best recent statistic on the
platform's dumbing down. But, like extra keys will clarify anything for
someone who can't or won't rtfm?

MS also mentioned the Apple logo key, which I suspect is the crux. MS has
grabbed everything it could that made Macs unique. Every time Big Bad Bill
considers that logo key, it must burn him that 80x86 keyboards are
IBM-defined and have no MS stamp on them. Even the concept for the three keys
is unoriginal: inspired by a DOS utility called Automenu. 	--a

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