That behavior is the MS Windows Multiple Document Interface (MDI) design standard. It is supposed to behave that way. The reason you don't expect it is MDI isn't used very much by application developers and is, therefor, uncommon.

I personally like the MDI standard. I have programmed a few apps myself usingg it and I have a couple of specialised commercial apps that use it.


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