Windows XP For Dummies

Windows is just another piece of software, like the zillions of others lining
the store shelves. But it’s not a program in the normal sense—something
that lets you write letters or lets your coworkers play Bozark the Destroyer over the office network after everybody else goes home.
Rather, Windows controls the way you work with your computer.
Years ago, computers looked like typewriters connected to TV sets.
Just as on a typewriter, people typed letters and numbers onto the computer’s
keyboard. The computer listened and then placed those letters
and numbers onto the screen. But it was ever-so-boring.
The method was boring because only computer engineers used computers.
Nobody expected normal people to use computers—especially
not in their offices, their dens, or even in their kitchens. Windows
changed all that in several ways.

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