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The definition window or windows is used by computer systems for:
- On a computer system a window is a visual aera for fading in graphics, informations, pull down menus, input line or dialogs in a box on the screen. Windows can overlapping or positioning on the screen by the user. The active window is always in the front.
- Some BASIC commands or routines are also called WINDOW - for example: WINDOW in BASIC 7.0.
- Windows is an operating system of the company Microsoft, which is introduce for GUI (graphical user interface)on PCs with MS-DOS since November 20, 1985. The break through happen with the GUI Windows 3.x in the early 1990's.