Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 09:53 UTC, submitted by drfelip
"An interesting patent application recently filed by Microsoft may offer a glimpse at the future of the Windows interface. The patent describes a 'method for managing windows in a display' that seems to describe a method of task switching that is neither Taskbar nor Expose, but something in between." It reminds me of a feature called 'iconify', where you can minimise windows into an icon on the desktop (as CDE has, for instance), a feature I miss in most modern desktop environments.
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Exciting. Instead of scaling the window to the desired size, just show a piece of it. Simpler and less effective.
I should patent a system for promoting movies by distributing a low-quality version. Instead of downsampling the resolution, I'll just crop it to the upper-left corner and only include the sound for the first fraction of the movie. It's simpler and less effective than downsampling, but more importantly, nobody's been dumb enough to think of it before.