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Windows

noun as in operating system

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If you’re using an earlier model of Windows or a different operating system, however, some of the quick access keys won’t work on your computer.

A dedicated button offers Windows users quick access to the Start menu, and it connects to users’ systems via an included USB transceiver.

Microsoft’s server and app businesses were built from Windows and then led to the cloud.

From Fortune

Apple has introduced an iCloud Passwords Chrome extension that will make life easier for those who use both Windows computers and other Apple devices, like a Macbook or an iPhone.

Windows actually gives you the option of resetting your entire computer, or just resetting key Windows files and leaving your personal files as they are—this saves you the trouble of a backup, but it’s not as effective as a full reset.

Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.

A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it.

First, he emphasized the importance of the police and the need for new training and an end to “broken windows” tactics.

The site was blacked out at all times, with curtains and painted exterior windows.

Saks get 500,000 windows onlookers per day—a total of 25 million for the entire season.

The east window in this church has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.

The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.

In this little room the galleries had been designed; the windows had looked upon the commencement of the great work.

Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach.

Robert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the dormer windows.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to Windows, such as: disk operating system, dos, executive, macos, ms-dos, and os.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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