I'm writing a windows based program where you need to be able to select 
and move around objects.  I wanted the behaviour to be like standard MS 
Office products in terms of what combination of shift and ctrl click / 
drag you can do etc.

Two things came to my attention:

1) It was actually surprisingly tricky to get it working the same way, 
especially how to take into account all the different combinations of 
shift/ctrl clicks, drags etc that the user might do.

2) It totally SUCKED as a GUI with even a tiny difference to the 
selection/move logic.  So either I got totally used to the Office GUI 
and can't stand anything else, and/or MS actually did find a very good 
solution.

So, if you're developing an app for windows where you need to select and 
move about stuff, I highly recommend making it behave and feel like 
Office...

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