Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
Mac users think Microsoft doesn’t have any good ideas. They’re wrong. Here are some Windows features Apple should steal for macOS.
I’ve already talked about macOS features that Microsoft should steal, but macOS is hardly the only operating system with ideas worth copying.
Here are some Windows features I wish Apple would steal. It would require Sherlocking some apps, sure, but these are all features an OS should come with by default.Window Snapping
In Windows dragging a window to the corner or sides of your display quickly “snaps” it into place. Drag it to the left or right edge, and the window snaps to a position where it takes up half the screen. Better yet, Windows immediately shows all your other open windows so you can choose one to take up the other half of the display.
Drag a window into a corner, and it snaps to take up that quarter of the screen. Drag it to the top edge: maximized.
This feature is crazy useful, and Windows has offered it for nearly a decade. Why hasn’t Apple copied it yet?
There are plenty of alternative window managers for macOS that offer the feature. I recommend BetterTouchTool. But this feature seems like such a no-brainer that it should be built into macOS itself.
Maximizing Windows
While we’re on the subject of window management, you see this little button right here?
That’s a Maximize button. Click it and the window in question maximizes to take up your entire display (except for the taskbar). When a Window is already maximized, clicking the button returns the window to its original size.
On the Mac, we have this button:
And how it works is a bit confusing. For apps that support full-screen mode, clicking the green button enables that mode. For apps that don’t, clicking the button expands the window to whatever macOS thinks should be the right size based on…something. We’re not sure.
But a real maximize button would undoubtedly come in handy.
Menu Icon Management
Menu icons (those that appear at the far right of the Apple menu) are beloved by macOS developers, whether they’re necessary or not. Some applications let you hide them entirely, but many do not, meaning it doesn’t take long for your menu bar to become a cluttered mess.
In Windows, these kinds of icons for running services and apps reside to the far right of the taskbar. Technically, it’s…
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