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Windows

American  
[win-dohz] / ˈwɪn doʊz /
Trademark.
  1. any of several personal computer operating systems or environments featuring a graphical user interface.


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Appeared in the September 10, 2026, print edition as 'An Anniversary at Windows on the World'.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

For several years, Windows would run neck-and-neck with Tavern on the Green as the highest-grossing restaurant in the U.S.; in 2000, its last full year of operations, Windows on the World held the mantle.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Mr. Lomonaco co-founded the Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund to help the families of people who died in the restaurant on 9/11.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Cohen and West scoured the Windows on the World Facebook page to find surviving former employees to help tell the story.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

The first version of the Windows operating system launched in 1985, and the breakthrough version that made IBM PCs much more user-friendly—Windows 3.0—shipped on May 22, 1990, only six months after the wall went down.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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