Alt+Tab sucks; here's a solution — Exploits of a Programmer | Vicky Chijwani
The thing that's always ticked me off about the standard desktop metaphor is the inefficiency of Alt+Tab (at any point of time, you cannot be sure of where a particular application is, in the most-recently-used order). For so fundamental an operation as switching applications, which users perform many hundreds of times a day, making them tediously scan a (constantly-changing) list sorted by recently-used order seems like an awful idea to me, in many cases. Sure, toggling between two windows is dead simple, but when you have to switch to some other task, you're left with no choice but to go window-hunting.
The problem is especially chronic, for example, when I'm working on some web development stuff. I have 3 or more applications open (editor, browser, command line, at the very least, often with another browser for looking up documentation), and I have to switch among them very often. In such a situation, Alt+Tab is plain frustrating.
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