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I guess it depends on your view of DOS, a fair portion of my DOS software used the mouse: MS-DOS 6 EDIT and QBasic (but not Borland Turbo C 1 and 2, dagnabbit), DOS Shell, Neopaint, many games (e.g. X-Wing, Descent, Commander Keen IV, Worms). And Windows 3.11, since all that was was a DOS program anyway.

Drag and drop I probably first used in Windows 3.11, but like many GUI ideas, Windows 3.11 was very under-developed. Drag and drop in Windows to this day is still many years behind the Macintosh where it originated (System 7.5's Drag Manager and the best drag and drop API to date), and right-click support in Windows 3.11 software was very sketchy (most of 3.11 was very sketchy). Windows 95 was where all the ideas started to really come together on the Windows platform, but Notepad to this day still lacks the ability to drag-rearrange text; again, that's been on the Mac since System 7.5.

Drag and drop is best experienced on the Mac, but occasionally it works in Windows, such as being able to drag images to the desktop from browsers. Windows even copied Apple's clipping system, as scrap files, but completely screwed it up and made it useless. Woo.

The other crap thing about Windows is ctrl for keyboard shortcuts! Too easy to hit ctrl instead of shift. I just closed this tab with ctrl-W instead of shift-w, BUT, the new Undoclosetab for Firefox restored the tab ALONG WITH everything I'd typed. It has never done that before, awesome!!!!