Actually, in Windows, that "differently in Explorer than it does elsewhere in the system." is not 100% correct: there is no 'everywhere else'.
MS Office does not have a proper clipboard, either. For example, in Excel, open-select-cut-close-paste does not do what one expects:
- cut does not delete data from the clipboard, but
sort-of marks it for a future move.
- close makes the app forget about that move,
clearing the clipboard.
- because the clipboard is empty, paste does nothing.
IIRC, the clipboard is even broken within a single document, but I do not remember details (something like cut-enter data in a cell-select destination-paste?)
MS Office does not have a proper clipboard, either. For example, in Excel, open-select-cut-close-paste does not do what one expects:
- cut does not delete data from the clipboard, but sort-of marks it for a future move.
- close makes the app forget about that move, clearing the clipboard.
- because the clipboard is empty, paste does nothing.
IIRC, the clipboard is even broken within a single document, but I do not remember details (something like cut-enter data in a cell-select destination-paste?)