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re: Why is it Called?
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 at 11:53 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(1 messages posted)
There were three factors which drove the choice of name.
First the final syllable "-dows" has a resonance if not a homonymity with the final
syllable of MS-DOS the basis of all Windows releases up to and including WIN-me.
Second the obvious synecdoche already noted, whereby the software is known by the
name of one of its elements.
And third, because "Win" is what Gates wanted his DOS to do more than anything else.
Triumph-DOS hardly sounded like a contender though.
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 12:36 pm, John Smith wrote:
>It's called windows because it breaks easily.
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- re: Why is it Called? (John Smith: Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 12:36 pm)
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