There's a newly published Microsoft Patent application that - at least the way I read it- seems to both alter and add significant options to the way in which cut-and-paste is performed between various Windows-compatible documents and utilities. That's not to say you will have to reprogram your brain to c&p from say, Word into a PowerPoint presentation. That's not going to need to happen. Instead, the concept here seems to be that Microsoft is saying that under-the-hood coding can make cut-and-paste a messy affair- and here are some solutions for these issues. The specific solutions described in this Patent app offer various "trust levels" for objects that can be cut and pasted. Examples would be secured documents that...