Something I would really like to see in Parallels Desktop (along with unified bootcamp installs): 1. Windows XP is set up the normal way in Parallels. 2. The screen size is set to something ridiculously huge (10000x8000 etc). 3. XP is set to not allow window overlap. There is some way to do this, but I don't know what it is. It may involve a seperate program. 4. Parallels enters a special mode where it detects the edges of windows run in XP, and instead of displaying the entire framebuffer, chops it up so that each XP window is displayed in a seperate OS X window, just as if it was a real independent application. 5. Awesomeness occurs. There will have to be some scheme to access the start menu, but I don't see any serious technical problems with this unless Parallels is unable to provide a fast enough video driver for the large screen size. Rectangular windows are easy to detect, and I think even non-rectangular windows in XP have a bounding box. With an appropriate driver you could just request the window positions and sizes from XP itself (I think) instead of having to scrape the screen looking for edges. ~perle
