Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:47:56 +0000, Mike Barnes wrote:

I open Firefox then I open Word and do "File: Open". I can move the Open
dialog around anywhere I like. I can bring Firefox to the front. The
only thing I can't do, until I close the Open dialog, is to move or
resize the original Word window.

That's exactly the problem. Windows doesn't let you move the Word
parent window, give me a good reason why you can't. Other desktop
enviroments can manage it so there is nor programming or technical
reason why it can't be done. Ergo windows is broke.

You are right but you miss my point which is that that's *much* less
serious than the alleged problem that we were told about earlier. It's
easy to find fault with Windows, so I don't know why people resort to
transparent exaggeration in order to make their case.

Speaking for myself I've never found the slightest problem with cases
like that described above, because it's trivially easy to move or resize
the dialog to see what's underneath it, not that I'd ever want to do
that with an Open dialog. What is annoying (and this the only such
problem I've had in over a quarter-century of Windows use) is in Quicken
where I open dialog A from the main window, then dialog B from dialog A,
and find that I can't move dialog A to see what's underneath it in the
main window.

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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England