Why is windows called a user friendly operating system?

Answer 1

Purely as Windows has 95% of the market share thus it is what most people are used to. When it is said to be "user friendly" what is meant is "the same as always".

However, try writing a 100 page document in Word or after your computer has opened a .exe file without asking your permission so that a virus may devastate your computer: not so "user friendly" then! The term used in this sense is a decoy, as if you try any of a large number of OSs and applications offer the very same services, these days with a very small lag time as many look (on the surface) more or less the same as the Windows version - yet may run faster/more efficiently.

A more up-to-date usage of the word "user friendly" is used when discussing application use. User friendly here means making the user's experience as efficient as possible - of course different users have different needs, so some things will make one user's experience more efficient and another less so! For example, if you were writing a 100 page document in Word it would crash/run insanely slow, in OpenOffice Writer or a LaTeX editor it would run fine.

Answer 2

Well, it fits the definition of user-friendly.

It is easy to operate, understand, or deal with.