"mjmattson" <mjmattson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:003BEE93-F199-497C-AA2E-D6A3A935F068@microsoft.com...
>I figured with Bill Gates being left-handed this would have been something
>looked at. I can wait until LongHorn...just wondered if it had been looked
>at.
>
> I appreciate all the information provided.

A larger-than-average proportion of the Tablet architects is left-handed and
this discussion has been had since the very earliest days. There also some
problems with legacy code in some of the standard Windows libraries that
don't produce very good menu flyout behaviour when switched to left-hand
user behaviour.

Windows does support switching scroll-bars over for Arabic and Hebrew
systems, but many third-party Win32 applications that are untested in these
scenarios will crash.