This is my fault. I& #39;m sorry. https://twitter.com/clairernovotny/status/1287850874518351877">https://twitter.com/clairerno...

Yeah I went and validated it to make sure, found in a spec I wrote August 29, 2001. Definitely my fault.

Short summary: To only have one text editor in Microsoft Office, the decision was made to have Word be Outlook& #39;s default text editor in Outlook 2003 (seen above as its code name, http://Outlook.NET"> http://Outlook.NET ).

All of the legacy MS mail programs used Ctrl+Enter to send mail. All were being discontinued in favor of Outlook as the "one unified mail program."

Word, when used as Outlook& #39;s editor, changed the "send email" shortcut to Alt+S, because Word used Ctrl+Enter for something else.

I was barely out of college and I really liked the feeling of hitting Ctrl+Enter to send a mail. It was very viscerally satisfying. Ker-chung! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📨" title="Eingehender Umschlag" aria-label="Emoji: Eingehender Umschlag">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📨" title="Eingehender Umschlag" aria-label="Emoji: Eingehender Umschlag">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📨" title="Eingehender Umschlag" aria-label="Emoji: Eingehender Umschlag">

But the plan was to unify everything around Alt+S as the permanent "send email" shortcut key forevermore.

So I arranged to get that UI work transferred to me and I wrote the spec and included doing extra dev work to override Word& #39;s internal code and bring Ctrl+Enter back to prominence, where it has remained for the last 20 years, now copied into dozens of other apps. I& #39;m sorry.