The message 20051126145202.GB6331@areti.co.uk from Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk contains these words:
Also a lot of Windows users I know don't tend to multitask...they will fullscreen one application and work on that, finish save their work and close it...open something else.
Yes, I find that wierd too, the number of people who run everything full screen. One of the basic powers of a GUI is multiple overlapping (or maybe tiled) windows and many users aviod using it!
I avoid everythung like that - I might revise my practice when I get a new pair of glasses - ATM, my driving glasses aren't any good for anything nearer than about ten feet, and I've borked my varifocals...
And working this thing without glasses is OK, but until I discovered the right-click (X) on a black terminal with white script turns it grey with black script, I had to get up and peer at the screen to read it when it was full sized, let alone tiled.
I see where you're coming from, and I do often have overlapping docs open in some Windows apps, usually in fact, when doing web pages.
However, I do like to have things legible, so it's not a great burden to minimise a program from time to time to look at what's underneath - and refresh it.