how did they come up with the name 'windows'

@Phatmat (104)
Australia
February 25, 2007 1:53am CST
lol ... has anyone ever wondered how they actually came up with the name 'windows'. i mean why window? why not sumthin else creative, not glass.
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
25 Feb 07
I would have thought that it was pretty obvious, since the system ceased using basic command prompt and started displaying the actions in a window that opened on the screen. What else would you have called it, boxes or rectangles?
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slavezero
@slavezero (833)
• Philippines
25 Feb 07
actually it was originally going to be called "Interface Manager", but the marketing head of microsoft convince the company that the name "WINDOWS" would be a more appealing name to the consumers.
Phatmat
@Phatmat (104)
• Australia
27 Feb 07
haha yeh, that would have been a downer of a name ... i mean who would actually buy it.
im2good4u
@im2good4u (567)
• Philippines
25 Feb 07
its named windows because when you need to open any program or browse your computer it opens a 'window' or a workspace unlike in DOS that you only have 1 screen to work with, its way back to windows 3.1
Biodrome
@Biodrome (89)
• India
25 Feb 07
probably coz it goes to sleep everytime u run a really powerful application....n it doesn't know wat to do........so, we ppl call it "Windoze"