Users of Microsoft Windows have had to put up with weak facilities for managing large numbers of windows for a long time -- I remember having 60-70 windows open

Users of Microsoft Windows have had to put up with weak facilities for managing large numbers of windows for a long time -- I remember having 60-70 windows open on an AIX workstation back in the 90's and never feeling lost, but it's pretty easy to feel lost managing 6-7 windows on a Windows machine. Multiple issues are involved, for instance, the way that window application processes are responsible for moving themselves, the way focus works, the way cut-and-paste works, etc. (To be fair, Microsoft has been steadily improving matters, and Win7 is a step forward) Anyhow, I find things easiest in Windows if I run with windows maximized much of the time, and a multi-monitor rig is a good way to do that and still be able to see more than one thing at a time. Some Windows apps are very well designed to work w/ multi-monitor rigs too. Visual studio, for instance, makes it very easy to split the VS across monitors 1 and 2 and have the application you're running on or your web browser on monitor 3.