Originally Posted by
Gertrude the Wombat
Clearly.
I'm glad there is one point we can agree on.
Windows tells the application what the user has asked for, then the application tells Windows what to do, usually, but not necessarily, by telling the OS to do its default thing.
...and then the OS blindly follows the application's orders? If so, that was my understanding, and my point is that Windows could and should provide a mechanism for the user to override this behaviour. I suspect the internals allow this, but where is the UI?