This is probably not a coincidence. I can pretty much guarantee you a developer said something to a designer like "hey, most of this is outside the window, is that fine?" and the designer said back "well, I think so, but let's check what Windows did," and then they okayed the decision at least in part because Windows did it.

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flohofwoe 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Which is all the more bizarre, because historically it was usually Windows which copied MacOS ;)

That the roles got reversed became painfully clear when macOS copied the Windows Vista style popup mess for access permissions.

	▲	jeroenhd 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The macOS style popups are arguably worse. Windows Vista may have been plagued by programs assuming administrator access for everything but at least it isolated the security prompt. You can verify that you're interacting with a real UAC prompt (by pressing ctrl+alt+delete for instance, which can be configured to he required before approving a prompt). Any program can replicate the macOS security dialogs. You just have to hope that you can safely enter the password to your account into one, or activate TouchID when prompted.