Reply To: Opening Indesign CC for the first time… Weird

It looks normal to me. Since you don’t have any documents open (as it appears from your screen shot), you won’t see any close, min, max buttons). You don’t have any documents open, thus you can’t minimize, close, or maximize.

And once you have a document open you will be able to see the pasteboard.

I’m sorry if I don’t understand the problem, but it appears you don’t have a document open.