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Microsoft Windows enforced maximizing everything like that since the 3.x days. Every other OS tried to enforce not doing that - some taking it to an extreme! I
by WWLink 9y ago
Microsoft Windows enforced maximizing everything like that since the 3.x days. Every other OS tried to enforce not doing that - some taking it to an extreme! I recall when the "maximize" button in OS X was a "zoom" button that stretched the window vertically, but it'd only stretch a window as wide as the content demanded.
Of course, the Windows users whined and whined and whined about that until Apple decided to make everything go fullscreen super easily.
So anyway, I love seeing people use 34" ultrawides to browser websites with their browser window maximized. It's a ridiculous waste of space. XD
- baq 9y agoit's actually super easy to make a window take only half a screen in windows 8+ - move it to the edge of the screen. in windows 10, you can also move it to the corner to make it take 1/4th. shortcuts of win+left/right do similar things and also exist since win 8 at least. now whether these people are aware of that and whether they say that having 2800x1200 window is fine for them is a completely different thing...
- rocqua 9y agoThose same shortcuts are definitely in Win 7. I'd guess they came from Vista.