Okay, okay, we're making good use of sarcastic italics, but we do have a point: we take such things for granted to the point where it might not have occurred to naysayers that just being able to minimize a window could make an operating system more user-friendly.

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Users can also minimize a given window to see new notifications.

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Rather than close or minimize a phone window to interact with a background application like a music player, users could control a primary application, like email, via touchscreen or keys, and manage the background application via gestures, said Goren.

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Windows 95 featured the first appearance of the Start menu, taskbar, and minimize, maximize, and close buttons on each window.

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But he can minimize his estate's potential bill during that ten-year window by using some of the same techniques wealthy U.S. citizens use, such as family limited partnerships.

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