Re: "a paragraph in my first chapter explaining why tiled windows were better"
> Apart from 'Microsoft don't know how to do the overlapping ones they promised two years earlier
They could and did do overlapping windows in Windows 1. That's what a drop-down menu is. What they chose not to do was overlapping top-level app windows, partly for fear of litigation from Cupertino and partly because they genuinely thought, backed by observation of novice user behaviour, that it was less confusing.
This belief later gave us the Metro UI. Someone hammer a stake through it, please.
-A.
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