Coding Horror: Please Don't Steal My Focus

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror a has a good post on software that steals your focus. Talk about nasty! Besides being very annoying and cutting productivity, it is potentially dangerous as he attests.

I love this comment by Jack:

We don't need no pop-up windows,
We don't need no modal box,
No focus-stealing bad behaviour,
Coders leave my apps alone,
Hey! Coders! Leave my apps alone.

Whatever happenned to instaling updates that don't require an immediate reboot? Microsoft should learn from this.