Sometimes, while clicking around Windows, you'll notice that your system leaves behind a "focus rectangle"—a dotted outline of whatever you had last selected—that is, of course, minor, but still kind ...

Windows come in a variety of styles. If you’ve been thinking of replacing or adding a window to your home, it could be ...

Windows are among the most expensive things you’ll ever have to buy for your house—costing approximately anywhere from $450 to $1,400 per window, which can obviously add up fast. You also have to ...

The Snipping Tool is a program that is part of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Window 8. Snipping Tool allows you to take selections of your windows or desktop and save them as snips, or screen shots, ...

Square windows create local stresses on an aircraft's fuselage and are blamed for three catastrophic airliner in-flight break ups in the 1950s.

Having round windows is usually an aesthetic choice. If you look throughout your home, most — if not all — of the windows you will have are rectangular or square. Those panes of glass with four right ...

Maybe they were just easier to render in older GUIs, and it has just carried on. (and you couldnt call it windows anymore) Because it's easier to describe a square than some flowing wavelike shape.

Initially, commercial airplanes featured square windows similar to buildings. However, midair disintegrations in the 1950s led engineers to switch to rounded windows. Rounded designs distribute ...