>Ken,
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>Boy is that true! - We could surely do better than the "Windows Standard", and I think Alan Cooper is saying that!
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>The "Windows Standard" seems, first and foremost, designed to showcase the mouse. It seems PURPOSEFULLY designed to force unneeded mousing all over the place!
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I agree with this. However, developers often over look one other Windows standard...that being that you can use either the mouse *OR* the keyboard to do everything.