In a Windows app, it is not possible to have cascaded windows and maximized windows at the same time.
As soon as you maximize one cascaded window, all the rest are automatically maximized, too.
Aside Brad's comments, there is a subtle cultural difference between the concept of maximizing windows on the Macintosh and doing so on Windows that should be understood.
Under Windows, the "maximize" button causes the window to take up (essentially) the entire screen; a second application toggles to the original size.
Under both X and pre-X versions of the Macintosh OS, "maximize" means that the window is maximized so that it shows as much of its content as possible, but no more (plus a buffer zone that seems to be defined independently by each application) within an area of the screen that is less than its totality. Thus even a large Photoshop file, when maximized, does not take up the entire screen; there is always a portion of the background available that allows you to click into (or drag into) the Finder or some other strategically placed application (*).
As another example, a Finder window that is maximized does not occupy the whole screen: If it has only two items in it it will become just large enough to hold those two items (**). If it has a large number of items it may become wider or taller than can be displayed (or both), but will not take up the entire screen.
Most applications follow a similar logic, so that a word processing document will only be nine inches (or so) wide when it is maximized.
I'm sure that there is a better way to describe this, but it is a definite difference between the operating systems and is very noticeable when you switch back and forth between them.
-=-Dennis
(*) There are exceptions to this rule, but you almost always have to ask for them to happen. They seldom involve the "maximize" button and usually result in the window filling the _entire_ screen, including the menu bar, having no margins and obscuring any palettes.
(**) In this case, if the original size of the window was larger than the minimum area necessary to hold the two items, the "maximize" button will act as a toggle that can be thought of as "minimize (to smallest area that can hold these two items")/"return to original size (whether larger or smaller than the optimal state)." This behavior is characteristic of the function of the "maximize" button in all conforming applications; if you stretch your word processing document to the full size of the screen, type some text, and then hit the "maximize" button it is likely that your window will _shrink_ to the dimensions of your page.
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