Does anyone understand why Microsoft hates Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins?

Ctrl-Ins key combination for copying objects into clipboard and Shift-Ins key combination for pasting them from it have been around since I started working with DOS programs. Then they became natural habits under Windows 3.1, OS/2, and subsequent versions of Windows. So far, it is a smooth ride.

Fast forward to the emergence of Microsoft Help Viewer, Microsoft SSRS Report Builder, and some other products by that company. Suddenly, the above key combinations do not work anymore, but Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V do work.

Can anyone explain inexplicable hostility and hatred by Microsoft of the former keyboard shortcuts? What is wrong with them (MS) so that they neglect to support or deliberately choose not to support them in some areas of some of their products?

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Listen very carefully: Everyone in the IT industry has gone mad

Microsoft acquired GitHub. Okay, this probably means that it was a lucrative business that MS could make a few hundred bullion $$ from. Sounds like a sweet business transaction.

Fast forward a few months. Now yours faithful tries to go and register a new github account, just to post a bug report for an open-source piece of software that is full of bugs and requires some feedback and a kick in its developer's balls, just to become barely useful. Ha-ha! Not so fast.

To register at GitHub one is now required to solve a captcha challenge. It is a set of 6 pictures, 2 rows of 3 columns, each with a set of 6 of 6-sided dices. Those dices not only have dots: some have numbers on their sides. Are you following? They have numbers too...

Now, try to solve the challenge: pick a picture in which dices total to 14. Here we go... Some dices have 6 on them, and they lay sideways on the desk. Are they 6 or 9? Fine, once I flex my math skills and finally solve this challenge, by guesstimating which digit it might be, the whole thing has the audacity to tell me: "1 challenge done" and present me with a new set of similar pictures. You know, Microsoft: you are brain-fucked, if you believe that adults who need access to some open-source projects enjoy being bullied to such degree. So, go and fuck yourself, lunatics! more...

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Yawning Heighs of corruption

Type 'golem' into an Open Office or LibreOffice text document. It will be underlined by a red, squiggly line, as a typo. Right-click it. The dictionary will suggest 'google' as the only replacement. "Open" Office is as corrupt as it gets.

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