I agree. Floating windows would be horrible on tablets. I don't think this Samsung implementation is great for usability either.
Microsoft is at least heading in the right direction since Windows 8 allows two programs metro apps to run side-by-side. Unfortunately, even their implementation has flaws: it only allows fixed sizes of 70%/30% or 30%/70%. Users can't manually adjust the divider between the apps to 50%/50%.
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I agree. Floating windows would be horrible on tablets. I don't think this Samsung implementation is great for usability either.
Microsoft is at least heading in the right direction since Windows 8 allows two programs metro apps to run side-by-side. Unfortunately, even their implementation has flaws: it only allows fixed sizes of 70%/30% or 30%/70%. Users can't manually adjust the divider between the apps to 50%/50%.