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If you permit me, I'd like to ask another question about Russian language—greatest language in the world.

How would you normally transliterate the word Windows into Russian, if it was a proper noun (the name of a well-known operating system)?

(Виндовс, Уиндовс, Виндовз, Уиндовз, Виндоус, Уиндоус, Виндоуз, Уиндоуз, «Окна», «Окошки», Windows or maybe everyone writes as he wants?)

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  • I once saw, I think it was in Огонек, back in the 20th century, the phrase “Windowsовская система”. I will never forget it.
    – Russica
    Commented Aug 9 at 6:59

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How would you normally transliterate the word Windows into Russian, if it was a proper noun (the name of a well-known operating system)?

You wouldn't.

By the time Windows (the OS) became a thing of any importance in the Russian-speaking world, it had already come to be perfectly acceptable to write English brand names in Russian texts using the Latin alphabet.

Shortly before that (roughly from the 1940s to the 1980s), the tendency was to use у for w and з for the final s: уоки-токи, уокмен, уайт-спирит, ноу-хау, Берроуз (Burroughs), Медоуз (Meadows) etc, with lots of ad-hoc exceptions: Виндроуз, Вилли Вонка, свинг, твист etc.

In the journalistic corpus, there are 14 entries of Виндоуз (obviously a name of a video game character) and 7 each of Уиндоуз and Виндоус.

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  • Что значит You don't в начале Вашего вопроса? Не совсем понял.
    – Alexander
    Commented Jul 10 at 9:06
  • @Alex ну то что просто не нужно транслитерировать никак) (это ответ на ваш вопрос "как транслитерировать" - "никак (не нужно)"
    – nicael
    Commented Jul 10 at 12:05
  • Хм, но у меня исключительно советские пишущие машинки. "Любава", "Ортех", "Украина". Пользуюсь по жизни только ими. Как Вам такой поворот дела, а?
    – Alexander
    Commented Jul 10 at 17:51
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    @Alexander: I didn't know you could post to Stack Exchange from a Soviet typewriter! Word renditions, as most other things language, form through, for the lack of a better word, public consensus. The majority of Russian speakers these days do possess the knowledge of the Latin alphabet and do have access to technology that allows typing it easily. Because of that, the way to render "Windows" in a Russian text these days is to type "Windows" in Latin script. If you are bound by self-imposed technological limitations and diverge from the mainstream usage, you'll have to blaze the trail yourself.
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Commented Jul 10 at 19:15
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    @Alexander: I'm very sorry to hear that. Being limited to a Cyrillic-only typeset is not a common situation for most Russian speakers these days (at least in Russia), so there is just not enough use cases for any kind of guidance. If you are typing for yourself, just pick the option that is the most aesthetically pleasing to you. Good luck!
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Commented Jul 11 at 0:43

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