user interface - Is there still a place for MDI? -

Although MDIs still use many applications (even MS Office, Adobe Apps) in its pure form or in some form, though

A hybrid with a tabbed / IDE-like interface

Is there still an MDI interface for some applications?

I am thinking about an app usually works with several documents at one time, and often multiple of viewing or copying / between them for multiple Wants to draw on documents

An example would be where there are several worksheets and graph windows; A tabbed or IDE-like interface would be very inconvenient, which could be back and forth switching.

On Mac, this is an application to have more than one top-level windows to solve this, if no one does not use MDI, then what is the preferred way in Windows?

Note that the examples you used (MS Office and Adobe Applications) Large programs and many more features

New versions of MS Office (2007) and Adobe Photoshop (CS4) use many windows. Respectively and tabs

Note that with Windows 7, MDI will probably lose popularity due to the extra power of the tab given by Microsoft's API (though you do not have to use the tab strictly - MDI window works , But will be more confusing for the user than usual).