Reader Jane Kerns has a bone to pick with Microsoft in regard to her favorite keyboard layout. She writes: I have used the Dvorak keyboard layout for close to 30 years. I also use Microsoft Word 2011.

If there is anything that I can do to make myself better and faster at typing, I’ll consider it. I’m a reasonably fast typist at 85-90 words per minute, but my job is to write, and my life is spent ...

August Dvorak (1894-1975) dedicated his life to destroying the keyboard that you are almost certainly using right now. He hated the design that put the letters “QWERTY” in the upper left, scattered ...

Last week, I embarked on a quest to make my life more difficult—learning the Dvorak keyboard layout for the purposes of comfort and, possibly, even speed gains. The exercise could pay long-term ...