A fight for the features

If anyone remember: the three familiar window control buttons in Windows were not always the same as we used to see them. Up to 95 version, the icons on the buttons did not even look like the actions they performed. At the same time, the buttons were placed on different sides of the window: the right-hand side had minimize and maximize buttons, and the close button was at left, like in Mac OS.

Now it is difficult to imagine that such a familiar control element was once quite different. Even more difficult, perhaps, to imagine that the old design was more convenient than the new one.

But you have to imagine. After all, the most surprising thing in this story is that the old window control scheme, after 17 years, still works. Double-clicking on the upper-left corner, in the place where the window was previously closed, closes the window one at a time.

So, not only there are people who use this method, because they are so used to it since the days of 3.11; but there are some individuals who even criticize browser Chrome: it used not to have this feature until version 5.

This is the best example that the fight for the features lost in advance.