When was the last time you used windows? ME? Nowadays the worst thing that can happen is that the task bar icon starts blinking or a non focus stealing balloon

When was the last time you used windows? ME? Nowadays the worst thing that can happen is that the task bar icon starts blinking or a non focus stealing balloon popup. (not balloons anymore but don't know the new term) *Win32 does expose functions to enumerate applications and to give arbitrary handles focus. So an app could theoretically use this to give itself focus but that is far from the default for requesting dialogs or attention and no serious application would do such a thing. Such sleazy applications shouldn't be installed in the first place. Unless that application is designed to be a window manager.