Every now and then i need to resize windows in Mac because of the simple reason that windows in Mac dont fit to fill the entire screen also they dont have maximize button which acts in a similar way to the maximize button in Windows OS. I really dont like the Mac’s approach of maximizing any window . Macs have a green button as a comparable control to Maximize button in Windows OS. This button has different behaviors - sometimes it increases the window size so as to fit the content ( Preview, Finder etc ) and sometimes it fills the entire screen ( Text Edit ). Thats why i generally pull the window to the size i want.
Resize Corner in Mac window
One thing here about Mac what i hate is that windows in Mac just have one corner ( right bottom ) from which i can pull it to resize the window. In Windows OS the case is different and i honestly think Windows OS has better handling of the resize window option. In Window OS any window can be resized from any four sides of a window. Resizing can be done from any four corners of the window as well and this kind of resizing is proportionate . See the flexibility Windows OS has given for a user to resize the windows. Other main thing i have faced in Mac is that when a window is little towards the bottom right of the screen you wont have much of space to resize that window . In this case you would move the window first to the extreme top left corner and pull from only one corner ( thats bottom right ) to resize it. Thats too much of task as compared to Windows OS where you can resize windows from 8 directions . So basically Mac’s score here is just 1 whereas Windows OS has score of 8 
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Resizing options in Windows OS
Well there is a Utility for Mac named MercuryMover which lets you resize and move windows without touching the mouse . Its totally useless and waste of money ( $24 .. who the hell will pay $24 for this total useless Utility ? ).
Because Mac saves the windows size state it becomes more irritating if you use multiple monitors which have different resolutions. Jeff has created an AppleScript which solves the problem and resizes window to fit the monitor resolution for some of the applications he uses most.
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Who wants to look at ugly borders around their windows all day? This is what I am looking at, there is nothing to grab apart from the scroll bar and resize corner on the right or the title bar at the top. I think we should call these documents rather than windows. A far more elegant solution: Macs 8 - Windows 1… for trying
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Duncan, I would rather post you a link to answer this..
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6699134&postcount=33
and i agree with this user who posted this. I am using this link because i think he has used Macs for longer years than i have
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Sure everything is programmable. You could write an AppleScript or use software like Zooom/2to achieve what you want. But it comes down to a design choice and Apple made the right choice here.
Similarly there is really no need to have a window occupy the whole screen. The Green button is a Zoom button not a maximise button. It Zooms the window between a default state that the programmer set and the last state the user set for the window. So in iTunes the window zooms between a miniplayer window and whatever the user last used. It is meant to work like that because people like to work like that.
This is what using a Mac looks like
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Ya by programs you may be able to do whatever you like to do ( thats what computers are meant to be
). Here i compare between built-in features especially from a Windows user ( switcher ) perspective.
It Zooms the window between a default state that the programmer set
I think the green zoom button maximizes window to fit the content in the final window ( like for example Pdf document in Preview ? )..
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The green button will do whatever the programmer set as the standard state. These are Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for programmers explaining Resizing and Zooming Windows.
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At this point it is usually relevant to note that with most window managers under Linux, you aren’t restricted to the edges of the window, but can resize or move it with the mouse *anywhere* in the window. So if Windows is 8, Linux must be over 9000.
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Why do these posts always turn into arguments about what is better and what is “right.” Please remember that what is best for one is not best for all. Furthermore, what is best for MOST is not best for all. Choice is a powerful thing and in my opinion should seldom be limited. I have been using both Windows and Macs for several years now, and love having this choice. In all honesty, from a user perspective, their differences are slight.
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