Dear Microsoft

If any of you keep up on the new ‘developments’ in Windows you might have heard about the window transparency that will be part of Vista. Indeed certain software allows this now. This makes it so you can see the stuff – windows, icons, desktop, etc. underneath your current window.

I would be curious if MS could take it a step further and allow you to click on objects on the second or third level. Generally this would be only useful for icons, since windows would then come to the top. I think it would have to be implemented as a click on dead space in a window would translate through if there was a clickable object under it. This would mean that any white space in a web page would be click-through-able.

Now, the real extension of this that I would like to see would be with remote desktop. I often am using two computers during my day and have one running over remote desktop on my second monitor. If you could make the entire remote desktop window click-transparent I could then control applications running on the native computer without having to minimize the remote desktop window. In this case, I would consider any space not occupied by a window on the remote machine to be dead and thus transparent sending all clicks to the native machine. This would of course require me to use some intelligence as to where I placed windows, but could be marvelously convenient.

If someone from MS reads this, I hope you take the Google approach and put someone on it right away since it’d be cool. I claim that if you did more things because they’d be sweet and fewer because they’d make loads of money we’d all be happier and like MS more.