"Obviously, they didn't invent it so it must be violating a patent or copyright somewhere."
Even though they didn't invent it, Microsoft has probably patented it already. Last year, they obtained the patent for the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys, despite those having been on the original IBM PC keyboard in 1981.
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