by Gabe Goldberg
Windows exists to let you manipulate objects on your PC. (And, of course, to make Microsoft even larger — though possibly not more disliked — than the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.)
But if all you could do to things was left click, highlight, drag, drop, copy, and delete them, that wouldn’t be interesting. So we use the right mouse button for object-specific actions.
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