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I KNOW there are a lot of people who hate that the Home and End keys do not take you to the beginning or end of the line while editing text on the Mac, but face it – the standard way to do this is Command+Left or Right arrow. There IS a way to enable the Home/End keys to work as they do on Windows which I mentioned previously.

Now I haven’t been a Mac user for more than week, but Command+arrow works in Apple Mail, Text Editor, and even in this browser edit box, so that seems pretty “standard” to me. Why then, should Microsoft make this key combination work differently in Entourage, while enabling Home/End to work as they do in Windows? Isn’t it more important for standards to be followed across all applications rather than forcing your own way on people? It’s precisely this kind of arrogance that I find pervasive in various MS products, and it’s one of the many reasons that prompted me to consider the Mac as an alternate platform. It’s a shame that this attitude seems to have carried over to their Mac software.

Then again, maybe I’m just over-reacting and this is just a minor bug. Could be, but there are too many of these “minor bugs” that never seem to get get fixed.