[Golden Eagle]

Why should you be surprised if competitors use those de-facto standards rather than require users to re-learn everything? The latter approach actually hurt Microsoft once upon a time converting people from WordPerfect to MS Word (back in the Word 2.0 days).

Disagree, one of the best things Microsoft did was to standardize the ridiculous differences between the menus in WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3. While they were doing that, WP and Lotus were screaming "WE'RE STAYING DOS, FOREVER." LOL.

[kevkrom]

Perhaps, but I remember seeing people with the quick reference cards quietly cursing Microsoft for changing their familiar keystroke combos...