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Really? You might have been lucky there, because I always maximize my windows on a 14-inch screen. What Windows 8 doesn't give you while full screen is the tas
by solox3 13y ago
Really? You might have been lucky there, because I always maximize my windows on a 14-inch screen.
What Windows 8 doesn't give you while full screen is the task bar, which used to show the user what is behind the active program.
Users don't like not knowing what's going on.
- elorant 13y agoYou maximize because your screen real estate is limited. Try doing the same in an 27-inch screen and it will look quite inconvenient. Which brings me to one of my everlasting questions, although somehow unrelated to the topic. Why aren't screens square?
- sp332 13y agoAs you get further from a square, you get less screen area for a given diagonal. A 4:3 screen with a 19" diagonal gives you 173 square inches, but a 16:9 screen with the same diagonal is only 156 square inches. http://daleswanson.org/things/screensize.htm http://daleswanson.org/things/screensize.htm So it's all about picking the biggest possible number for the crummiest product.
- edlinfan 13y agoBecause televisions aren't square.
- NamTaf 13y agoMore precisely, because eyes (plural, operating as a single input) aren't square. 16x[9/10] sort-of matches the field of view we have.
- ygra 13y agoSubjective, I know, but 4:3 was a lot more pleasant to work with, at least for me. 16:(9|10) might match movie aspect ratios better and thus would be better for watching them, but I do other things more often than watching movies on my computer screens (it's different for a TV, though).
- NamTaf 13y agoConversely, 16x(9|10) allows me to put 2x portrait documents next to one another comfortably. Alternatively, I can work on a document with a 2-page view.
- bane 13y agoThey used to be. Mostly machines with dedicated monitors. Nice, beautiful square screens with gorgeous square pixels. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=298 http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=298
- teamonkey 13y agoI have 2 24" monitors and almost always maximize everything to full screen or snap windows side-by-side (Win-Left / Win-Right). You don't need a large screen if you're going to leave all that space unused.
- ubercow13 13y agoBecause you have two eyes
- mikegioia 13y agoI meant that rarely do I put the window in fullscreen mode, not maximize it. I frequently maximize too, but that still gives you the task bar. My problem was with 8/8.1's insistence on fullscreening the window.