The Windows that Changed Our World

“How Windows can change our lives?” is the question of the hour. The Windows that is being spoken of is the Windows operating program on the computer in the typical office, the typical home and even and the typical classroom now. Windows is the primary and most popular operating system for these personal computers. Computers have had a profound effect on the typical American’s life over the last fifteen years. Life in the U.S.A has changed because of the technological advances in micro computers as they were once called. PC’s as they are now called have transformed many aspects of how people work, play, socialize, organize, communicate or correspond, and even learn.

Businesses have been revolutionized. They used to keep all their records on paper. Now they use computers to process inventory, accounts payable and receivable, payroll and all their office work. Sales are often made on the World Wide Web. Appointments and client records are kept via computer programs. Sometimes appointments are even made on-line all through computers. Added revenue has come into business through the web and computers. Productivity for businesses has increased. New businesses have arisen due to the popularity of the computer and the web. There are now online stores and catalogs without brick and mortar storefronts. Later more will be discussed about the communication developments that have helped businesses and their employees.

Children and adults play more on their computers and the internet at games that before could not have come about. People in different cities, states and even countries “meet” online to play computerized games and challenge each other’s high scores. One excellent example is of two brothers. The older brother has left ho...

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...ee something that peaks their curiosity and investigate it online to know more about the subject. A negative in this may be that hypochondriacs have access to more knowledge in diagnosing themselves or that a terrorist may be able to learn how to make a home-made bomb.

In conclusion all of the negative effects can not out weight the positive effects Window’s and Personal Computers have had on daily life in the past 15 years. Information technology is a growing field and will continue to have a profound effect on the world in which we live. How we work, play, socialize, communicate and learn will continue to change just like it has in the past. Technology is an amazing thing and nothing to be scoffed at. The generation that grew up in the 1980’s has seen some incredible changes since the advent of internet service and their pc’s and are likely to see so much more.