Why did Bill Gates named his program Windows?

Question

Im just wondering why?

Answer 1

Interesting question. So I did some digging.

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released in 1985, lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity. It was originally going to be called Interface Manager (according to some, Bill Gates' preferred product name), but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be a more appealing name to consumers.

Check out the information on the "Teaser" press kit Microsoft Windows 1.0 Launch November 10th, 1983, something else. A far cry from today's software marketing strategies.

Answer 2

Gates and Jobs have very different backgrounds. Gates was an Assembly-language programmer who hit big with Microsoft BASIC then BOUGHT the MS-DOS os which became Windoze. By the time he was overseeing the GUI (Windoze) compilers for pascal c and c++ were common and he is such a hardware junkie you can bet he had them. While Jobs really was the finance guy and Wozniak the Wizard of Apple, they both came out of the Homebrew Computer Club (building the machines from off-the shelf parts at home) as well as building black boxes. Also Woz had a day job at Hewlett Packard -- which was a far better place in those days. They had the best tools available to them -- before Microsoft. Apple is definitely more of an innovator than Microsoft.

Answer 3

I THINK it becoz once you open the window theres a lot of things to see, just like having a birds eye view )same thing in programs new features, new shows etc...) and i THINK becoz windows is more pleasing to the ear than doors (lol)
Ignore me ok?

Answer 4

because he thought of computers as another window to see the world from.

Answer 5

im guessing because it had a GUI that was in frames so he called it windows... pffft

Answer 6

no idea, it looks lie a window