@cindex MS-Windows keyboard shortcuts
Many key combinations (known as ``keyboard shortcuts'') that have
conventional uses in MS-Windows programs conflict with traditional
-Emacs commands. This conflict arose because the designers of the CUA
-interface implemented by MS-Windows did not try to avoid conflict with
-Emacs. Examples of conflicts include @kbd{C-c}, @kbd{C-x}, @kbd{C-z},
-@kbd{C-a}, and @kbd{W-@key{SPC}}. You can redefine some of them with
-meanings more like the MS-Windows meanings by enabling CUA Mode
-(@pxref{CUA Bindings}).
+Emacs commands. (These Emacs commands were established years before
+MS-Windows, and years before Microsoft.) Examples of conflicts
+include @kbd{C-c}, @kbd{C-x}, @kbd{C-z}, @kbd{C-a}, and
+@kbd{W-@key{SPC}}. You can redefine some of them with meanings more
+like the MS-Windows meanings by enabling CUA Mode (@pxref{CUA
+Bindings}).
@kindex F10 @r{(MS-Windows)}
@cindex menu bar access using keyboard @r{(MS-Windows)}