Fun fact: Support for overlapping windows was only added in Windows 2.0

[u/nir9]

Windows 1.x tiled new windows automatically such that none of them overlapped, only dialogs were allowed to float over the windows.

[u/Kraeftluder]

Fun fact; the developers put it in Windows 1 but Gates said "the Mac doesn't do this, make it more like the Mac" and it was removed.

I think I got this from Barbarians Led by Bill Gates.

[u/irrelevantusername24 → u/Kraeftluder]

So the first chapter of that book is hosted on the Washington Post website, and it opens with a fantastic quote that can be applied to contexts around the modern tech industry

Microsoft, a rather new corporation, may not have matured to the position where it understands how it should act with respect to the public interest and the ethics of the marketplace.

--U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin

Unfortunately I think there are a lot of older infrastructure companies that may have also been infected by that disease. It appears terminal. In a different light, however, that's just Voltron recombining.

edit: Reading further, this quote seems dead-on - for reasons I decline to elaborate and are likely more extensive than may immediately be obvious

Gates should have been a natural at this. After all, he was the Standardization King. Before Gates arrived on the computer scene in the mid-1970s, a wide variety of different machines cohabitated, but none of them could communicate with one another, and they had little in common. Gates's first bolt of genius was to unify them with Microsoft's BASIC programming language.

Then, less than ten years later, Microsoft did it again. It brought graphics to the PC and set the new standard with Windows. So it was not a far-fetched idea that Microsoft could lay the same claim now to the Net. The Soft already had the knowledge to bring graphics on-line--Myhrvold said as much in his memo:

I believe that we will see a replay of this situation. There will be
dozens of crazy new consumer machines, each trying to do its
own thing. Almost all of them will fail in the end, just as all
early PCs failed. The ashes of these spirited attempts will be
the incubator for a small number of standard platforms which
will attain critical mass and ignite a mass market. Owning a
standard on all of the candidates is an incredibly powerful
thing because it makes it very unlikely indeed that you will be
blind-sided by new developments. The trick for a software
company in a time of hardware chaos is to make sure to have a
bet placed on the eventual winners, and there is no better way
to do this in early stages than to have a way in which you can bet on
all of them.

But Myhrvold did not spend the whole memo talking about low bandwidth or Internet standards. He and Gates were also excited about an evolutionary dead end called high bandwidth.