• Hellfire103
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    3 days ago

    Well, it started out as a basic windowing system for DOS, so…

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      3 days ago

      Yeah Microsoft Graphical Boxes makes some sense I suppose. Windows? No, sorry they are not windows.

      Why not paintings, canvas, boards, or any other much more logical name. This is some stupid decision by a marketing department.

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        1 hour ago

        What a weird take. Windows in GUIs were a thing years before Microsoft made theirs. It followed white logically from Microsoft DOS. There were several other operating systems called something with DOS at the time, PC-DOS, Novell DOS, and others.

        While not a very creative name, it was pretty self explanatory as to its major feature.

        Talk about bad names for an operating system, IBM‘s OS/2 is far worse.