Re: [LUG] Guys guys guys

[Jamie Andrews <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:37:09PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> On Monday 07 October 2002 14:26, you wrote:
> > Much as I understand all the bigotr... err I mean advocacy... on the dclug
> > list, can we please refrain from calling the different flavours of Mr.
> > Gates' product "Windoze" please?
>
>
> I agree.  We should call it "the Microsoft proprietary implementation of the 
> PARC Xerox/IBM approach to a GUI combined with Common User Architecture"
>
> Windows after all refer to holes in the wall optionally glazed, and is not a 
> trademark even if capitalized.  Probably.

I usually call it "billyware" when I'm talking to my friends.  

Also, I find a lot of people refer to it simply as "Windows".  It is of course
"Microsoft Windows"

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