Keyboard shortcuts (vs. Windows)

Question

In the now locked "Better than Windows" thread in the Tiger Installation & Setup forum, Wade Peeler commented as follows:
The fact that you can't restore a minimized
application via the keyboard is an oft-requested
feature ...
Unless I'm missing something, you can do this using the Control + F3 key procedure I outlined in a post to that thread. I'm discovering it's actually a very well thought out feature:
• Even if you have Dock hiding turned on, the keystroke combo pops it up.
• Whatever was last selected by this method is retained as the initially selected item, even if you have used the pointer to select another Dock item or otherwise switched to another application.
• The arrow keys select among apps & are smart enough to honor the vertical or Dock options -- navigate through horizontal Docks with the left & right keys & through vertical ones with the up & down keys -- just as you would intuitively expect.
To select any Dock item, you just press Return.
{infomercial voice-over} But wait, there's more! {/infomercial voice-over}
• Say you don't just want to restore an application minimized in the Dock, but instead want to access the docked item's pop up contextual menu. Once you select it with the arrow keys, instead of hitting the return key, hit an arrow key that points in the direction that the menu would pop up in (up/down for horizontal Docks & left/right for vertical ones). The menu then pops up & once again you use the arrow keys to select any menu item you want from the list.
• If the contextual menu has a sub-menu, you can continue to navigate in this fashion with the arrow keys: if left arrow moves you into the sub-menu, right arrow moves you back to its parent.
• If you decide to bail out of the feature without activating anything with the return key, either hit Control + F3 again or the Escape key, & you are retuned to where you were before.
• Since the Dock can hold just about anything, the possibilities are almost limitless. For instance, I keep a folder in the Dock that is just a collection of folders containing aliases, organized by functional groups: favorite utilities, video apps, games, & so on. Since the actual folder lives in my Home Folder & contains nothing but aliases, I can name any of the items as I like & control their order in the popup menus & submenus with prefixes (like a "•" to move something to the top of the list). Moreover, some of these aliases are to files that launch apps via a setup file in a particular state (like a SuperDuper backup settings file). Since I'm an AppleScripter, a few of them perform complex actions, complete with state-dependent tests & logical branching. If you wanted to, you could even put an alias of your startup drive in the Dock, & navigate through the entire file system this way!
{infomercial voice-over} Now, how much would you expect to pay? {/infomercial voice-over}
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Answer 1

Hi J,
running Windows on your MBP is like running Windows on any given computer, so all the well known keyboard shortcuts will work according to Windows standards.
Whether your wireless Windows keyboard will work with the MBP merely depends if you can sync it with your MBP.
There have been numerous posts round here, that are mentioning that at least with the Wireless Apple keyboard there are quite some difficulties maintaining a stable connection.
Regards
Stefan