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What does "Windows" mean in "Windows 95/98/XP... ? - Dao Trong Nhan - Professional IT I think it doesn't mean a place for looking outside !!! Maybe it's Bill Gate's jargon Of anyone knows what it is , please tell me Thank you very much !!!

Best Answer: It means that you can operated different applications in different windows, more than one application at a time. Open a bunch of programs and then minimize them, look at the bottom of your screen and the programs will still be running only in the background. Click on one of the programs at the bottom and it will immediatly be on the screen. Back in the good old days I had a Color Computer by Radio Shack. I bought what was called OS-9 it was an operating program that allowed you to do different programs in different windows. I ran this off 4 floppy drives, the old 5 1/2 inch jobs. There was no hard drives in them. I bought one of the first 125k jobs and updated that to 256 k. I really thaought I had something with this. You can be lucky to have the Windows, it makes like simpler and easier. Back then you had to write your own programs. - Thomas S

windows is the name of the operating system. - lomatar1186

its just a name given after the first computer he made with his uncle windows nothing else but b4 windows there was dos. and dos was named after his pal who died - ThE TiTaN

When the graphical user interace was invented the method of user interaction was called WIMP - Window Icon Mouse Pointer. The Window is the container holding (or displaying) the application. Microsoft used that to name their product. - Kev

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