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by burgerbrain 5458 days ago
As far as I know, MSFT doesn't have a trademark on the term "window" as used to describe objects in a GUI. They have a trademark on the term "Windows" as a whole system.

Same reason you can buy "linux" laundry detergent.
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mikemaccana 5457 days ago
Windows began as an installable GUI, target than a whole system. It was only in 1995 that it started doing more than windowing.
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burgerbrain 5457 days ago
Even so, their trademark in that case was on the windowing system. Not on the UI elements generally called "windows".
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mikemaccana 5455 days ago
I'm going to flat disagree that windowing systems and window UI elements are separate fields of endeavor, in the same way that laundry detergent and computer Operating Systems are. I think most lawyers would too.
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mikemaccana 5457 days ago
Ahem, 'target' should be 'rather'. Hooray autocorrect.
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