>why both Windows and OSX are so unwilling to either explore more powerful window management, or at least provide APIs to enable power users to build their own.

>why both Windows and OSX are so unwilling to either explore more powerful window management, or at least provide APIs to enable power users to build their own. You will wonder how many users have single-threaded, single-windowed mindset (hint: vast majority). No offense here, having multiple windows on desktop really distracts and confuses them, harming their productivity. APIs are provided though, at least in Windows. Aston Desktop[1] is still working on Windows 7. 1. http://www.astonshell.com/ http://www.astonshell.com/