I don't mean to argue with you, but I would say that Windows is a name, just like "The Beatles". "The Beatles was a band, but The Beatles' members were musicians". The Beatles were not a band.

>The is a beast in the English language called a collective noun, which looks plural but is gramatically singular.
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>>Hi all
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>>I got this recently from my kid when he shutdown Windows 98
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>>Dad, why does it say Windows is shutting down, shouldn't it be Windows are shutting down.
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