Why are the Minimize and Restore buttons gone from the top right-hand corner of the Document window?
“In previous versions of the Office suite of programs, users were getting confused when they had multiple documents open. If they have a particular document window maximized, they did not see the other documents they had opened. In response to user feedback and extensive usability testing, the Office team decided on updating the interface to use a “Multiple Document Interface (or MDI for short)”. MDI basically means that for each document you have open, you will get an icon on your task bar. That way, you can quickly change between documents, and the user gets a visual indication of how many documents they have open. Some users have been concerned that this would take up a lot of memory, but it does not because you still only have one instance of Word (or PowerPoint, or Excel, etc.) running, just each document has its own window available. Because of MDI, there was really no reason to “iconify” the document window, so they removed those buttons. You can still minimize and maximize indi
