[PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Thu Aug 11 18:45:00 GMT 2016


Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> indirectly putting down users that use
> Windows or Mac OSX is not nice

While we're on the topic of terminology, commentary shouldn't call that 
operating system "Windows", a name that is too easily confused with the X Window 
System and with other windowing systems. This is why the US Patent and Trademark 
Office rejected Microsoft's attempt to trademark "Windows".

In GNU Emacs commit messages, we often call the it "MS-Windows", which is short 
enough and is clearer than "Windows".



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