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Darwin:
Well... It's not *much* of an advance beyond double-clicking the menubar titlebar, but if I want to move a window to my secondary monitor, I simply drag the window over and then make sure that it touches the top of the viewable area of the monitor et voila! It's maximized. It really SOUNDS quite silly but I actually find it to be surprisingly handy  :Thmbsup:

EDIT: corrected wording... Doh! I was THINKING "titlebar" while I was typing the original post, too  >:(

Curt:
Giving the initial post's wording, it may be of merely little interest if I like these videos or if I already have tried these features on a former system. If I've understood any of it, the point was & is that apparently Microsoft will finally be advertising the content rather than the form. And that may be one small step for mankind, but it is one giant step for Microsoft. Thanks, Innuendo!

Innuendo:
Giving the initial post's wording, it may be of merely little interest if I like these videos or if I already have tried these features on a former system.-Curt (October 23, 2009, 06:43 AM)
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Yes, I believe that the emphasis on these concept commercials (they aren't even really commercials. The guy who made them was given 3 days to come up with something to advertise Win7) is the new Windows 7 way of doing things. For example, the promo about the Gadgets shows that while Gadgets remain the Sidebar is gone.

Previous Windows ad campaigns have been rather trippy featuring people running through fields & flying through the air while the only audio is Rolling Stones or Madonna song. I think this is a brilliant move because once people are shown exactly what Windows 7 will do for them then Apple is going to have to drop (or at least supplement) their current ad campaign as people will then be wondering what can Apple's OS do for me *exactly* and there has yet to be an OS X commercial that shows that.

Darwin:
Nicely said, Curt  :Thmbsup: I've yet to see a Windows 7 ad (I don't watch that much television), but I hope you're right. In fairness, with the success of the Apple ad campaign over the past two or three years, I don't think MS had much choice but to go the way that they did. I've said it elsewhere, but Apple's ads have been so effective that I don't think that MS advertising Vista on features would have worked - it's now ingrained in peoples' minds, right or wrong, that Vista was a pig.

Hirudin:
Well... It's not *much* of an advance beyond double-clicking the menubar titlebar, but if I want to move a window to my secondary monitor, I simply drag the window over and then make sure that it touches the top of the viewable area of the monitor et voila! It's maximized. It really SOUNDS quite silly but I actually find it to be surprisingly handy  :Thmbsup:

EDIT: corrected wording... Doh! I was THINKING "titlebar" while I was typing the original post, too  >:(
-Darwin (October 22, 2009, 10:34 PM)
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Ah, I think what you're referring to is actually called "Aero Snap". Shake lets you grab the title bar, shake it, and all other windows minimize (sorta like WinKey + D, but it keeps the current window open). I guess the purpose of Shake is to help you focus on the top window without being distracted by the other windows on your screen or something...?

skrommel made an autohotkey script that apparently has a similar effect (but better). I haven't tried it yet though, I guess I'm too lazy to install AHK. Here it is.

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