Where does “windows” come from?

Windows comes from Old English windauge, from Old Norse vindauga meaning "wind eye," combining vindr (wind) and auga (eye).

windows (English): Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market

Definitions

  1. Microsoft Windows, an operating system with a WIMP graphical user interface that dominates the personal computer market

Ancestry of “windows”, step by step

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1Englishwindowsplural of window; Third-person singular simple...
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