To be fair...I don't really know that it's Microsoft's term. They probably stole it from Apple like most of their Windows interface ideas.
(Puts on flame retardant bullet-proof suit and hides.)
>Ahhh...OK....I guess I got lost in the terminology :-)
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>>Context menu has been Microsoft's term since Win 95 for exactly the type of object he was describing ... a menu that pops up when you right-click an object.
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