A really useful feature on MacOS is that you can scroll a window that doesn't have focus by hovering over it and using a mouse with a scroll wheel/surface.
MS - and especially Windows - has always seemed to me a company that takes smart people and makes them do really stupid things. The product culture seems incredibly broken.
It's never been great. But in the past usable versions like XP and 7 would fall out. 8 set a new baseline for idiocracy and user hostility. I see no evidence things have gotten better since.
I suppose - as per earlier comments here - if the culture is top-down design by people who don't even use the product and are trying to Make a Statement for career reasons, the future isn't encouraging.
The real question is what kind of management allows something so obviously nonsensical to happen.
> A really useful feature on MacOS is that you can scroll a window that doesn't have focus by hovering over it and using a mouse with a scroll wheel/surface.
Yeah, Windows has had that too for a while now. Dunno for sure how long; some five years (or eight? Ten?), I'd guess.
Citrix (a remote desktop app) breaks that; apparently no mouse scrolls are sent to an app on the remote desktop until you click in the Citrix window.. Thunderbird partially breaks it: I just tried with TBird in the background: scrolling the list of emails (that works) and the text of a selected email (does not work).
MS - and especially Windows - has always seemed to me a company that takes smart people and makes them do really stupid things. The product culture seems incredibly broken.
It's never been great. But in the past usable versions like XP and 7 would fall out. 8 set a new baseline for idiocracy and user hostility. I see no evidence things have gotten better since.
I suppose - as per earlier comments here - if the culture is top-down design by people who don't even use the product and are trying to Make a Statement for career reasons, the future isn't encouraging.
The real question is what kind of management allows something so obviously nonsensical to happen.