Jeff I’ve never been able to see eye-to-eye with you on this maximize thing. How do you switch tasks? Do you take your mouse and move it from the top of the screen (where the most clickable things are) all the way over the main monitor, then to the bottom, then carefully click on the correct one?
Or do you use alt-tab to step through what can sometimes be dozens of tasks?
With my non-maximized setup, when I want to switch from this browser to my visual studio, I’ll just hurl my mouse to the left edge and click. I find it faster and more convenient to have the handful of key windows making use of the infinitely large clickable areas at the edges of my monitors, but when anything is maximized that space is wasted.
It’s true that I occasionally spend a few moments resizing to get things the way I like them, and maybe I underestimate that work… but I do that a lot less often than I switch tasks.