The Win+C keyboard shortcut actually has a bit of a ... but if you go all the way back to the Windows 95 era, users of Microsoft Natural Keyboards who installed Microsoft's IntelliType software ...

Windows 95 introduced Microsoft users to a world where everything was “point and click”, with the mouse was used as much as possible and the keyboard only used where necessary.

The keyboard effort builds on Microsoft's recently open-sourced PowerToys, which gave back to Windows power users a favorite tool that was developed by the Windows 95 shell team. More Microsoft ...

The developers had to essentially write a new operating system just to start Windows 95 setup, which was a waste of time because Microsoft was already selling the perfect product for the job.