It looks like it they wanted to use their existing special field management keys (field advance and field backspace) with tab being a different user experience. [0] Document does even use the word "Tab". "Field Backspace" seems to duplicate "Home" key usage under some conditions.

To be fair, Microsoft & Bill Gates are bad at quality user experience. "Ctrl+F" differs through their applications.

[0] https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibm525xGA2onDisplaySys...

*Edited.

The more I think of it the current TAB (SHIFT+TAB) key should of been used for entry navigation navigation only while the white space tab should of been something such as "SHIFT+SPACE".

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MoonWalk 5 hours ago | parent [-]

"To be fair, Microsoft & Bill Gates are bad at quality user experience."

In some ways. Gates deserves never-ending enmity for plaguing us with backslashes in paths. But in others, Microsoft advanced the state of UI and UX more than anyone else in the '90s.

"Would of?"

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rbanffy 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Microsoft advanced the state of UI and UX more than anyone else in the '90s.

There is no universe where that is true.

	▲	badsectoracula 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is: this one. Win95's UI was so incredibly influential that stuff introduced by it are still around to this day.