I never use notepad.  I guess I should check it out.  I keep a Word doc with language I always use, and I find Word doesn't play nice with other applications when I just want the text to look uniform.  It always messes up formatting.  I would guess that notepad doesn't have formating?  I like the taskbar idea, and didn't know you could have text highlighted already.

Yes, I use Notepad frequently as a "format stripper"

This new thing, I just realized, that highlighted text will be "selected" again whenever focus returns to that window. Presumably you could also Alt+Tab to it, but I never use that anymore because I always have double digits of windows open.
 

Both we, and the technology standards have evolved to make dual monitors be the baseline.
For multi-taskers, one monitor is nearly unusable, and two monitors is a struggle.

I have a laptop screen with two wide monitors attached, right next to another computer with another wide monitor, and I still spend a not insignificant part of my day carefully cascading windows, and using my new favorite Windows feature: docking windows into corners.
On my 32" monitor at home, I run four windows on the one screen, and each one is about the size of a laptop monitor. I have another monitor on the side, in portrait mode, with two windows-- top and bottom.

My biggest annoyance is how much stuff is crammed into the title bar of every application. To move windows around, which you will surely be doing thousands of times a day, you need to be able to click on a part of the title bar that's not a button.. but it's not clear where that might be. They need to add a designated "dragging anchor" that is colored like yellow caution tape.

OK, and Adobe's latest update to acrobat has been driving me nuts.  The top border of the PDF window does not have a black border line one pixel wide.  It's is just gray, all the way to the edge.  And I *think* the latest update of windows has gray shadow lines under the edge of each window.  So the top edge of the PDF goes from gray to a grayish shadow line that gradually blends into the window underneath, which is often some shade of gray,  It's such a poor design.  Give me a freaking black line so I can see where one window ends and another begins.

tw wrote:

It is a change.  So it must be better.  A 20 year old programmer said so.
 

They need to make endless changes to UI design, that nobody asked for and everyone hates, in order to justify having the programmers in their budget during times when there are no legitimate projects happening. Otherwise a consultant with a pie chat would convince the executive that has to prepare the quarterly fiscal report for shareholders, that a technology company doesn't need programmers. This is how ƒucking stupid capitalism has become.