Mac OS X inherited the feature from Be engineers who joined Apple, and KDE and Compiz have the ability too. I find this a very natural way of minimising windows, and I personally find it a more logical result of double-clicking a titlebar than maximising. First, double-clicking on the titlebar to minimise a window. Sticking to the area of window management, there are two things in this field I miss from BeOS. There are a number of third party tools that bring ExposÃ© to Windows, but none of them work as smoothly and effectively as ExposÃ©. ExposÃ© + Aero Snap = window management nirvana. Sometimes it’s simply better to admit that your competitor has a really good feature than to come up with a lame rip-off that doesn’t work as well (Flip 3D). I wish Microsoft would just suck it up and implement it alright. While I really like the new features Aero Snap brings to Windows when it comes to window management, there is simply no replacement for ExposÃ©. As much as I “like” using Windows 7 (I hate all operating systems except BeOS), there’s still a few features from other operating systems that I would like to see in Windows 7.įirst and foremost, I am a big proponent of Mac OS X’s ExposÃ©. The question is simple: which feature(s) from other operating systems would you like to see in your own main operating system?Īs most of you will know, Windows 7 made me switch full-time to Windows again, and ever since last Christmas, when the beta got out, it’s been my main operating system. This time, I want to focus on something that I’ve been wanting to talk about with you all before, but never found the time for. It’s time for another “OSNews asks” item.

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