>Microsoft says "eh, who cares let's break it all", and reuses Ctrl+C for copy. It wasn't Microsoft though. Common GUI hotkeys like Ctrl+Z/X/C/V/P were introdu

>Microsoft says "eh, who cares let's break it all", and reuses Ctrl+C for copy. It wasn't Microsoft though. Common GUI hotkeys like Ctrl+Z/X/C/V/P were introduced in Xerox Alto first, and everybody else used this as a convention, including Microsoft. I'm not sure what hotkeys Alto Executive used, and whether there was a mnemonic conflict at all.