Controllers have pop-up windows with various choices of standard messages for altitude changes, frequency changes and some re-routings.

WSJ: Texting While Flying: Help for Pilots

The programs range from complex instructions for displaying pop-up windows to a 36-line memory-management utility from the open-source game Rooms of Doom that software writers love because it's more compact than the 72-line alternative.

FORBES: Code Inspector

"Many people think of Internet advertising as an intrusive, interruptive experience, with dancing aliens jumping across the screen and perpetual pop-up windows, " Moloney says, adding that Scottrade favors ads that provide information that is meaningful to customers, such as a real-time stock chart it offers through an ad on Yahoo.

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PopOff: For-profit Web sites will hate you, but if you use this free utility it will shut down pop-up advertisement windows before they get in your way.

CNN: Top 10 hot Internet tools

Since March 2008, BBC News and Sport have been making a transition from the old pop-up (Real and Windows) player to a new embedded player.

BBC: Your guide to the BBC Embedded Media Player

Software features like Air View, Multi Windows, Pop-up Play will make sure you have plenty to do on that giant screen.

ENGADGET

Taxicabs, fast-food drive-up windows, soda-pop vending machines--Pascarella is putting credit card readers in all of them.

FORBES: Companies & Strategies

For weeks before and after the king's birthday, windows with congratulatory messages pop up on Thai websites.

ECONOMIST: Thais are impatient for change, but it will take time

And in true Microsoft fashion, we went big: 75 stores in three years and 30 pop-up stores to celebrate the recent launch of Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface!

FORBES: CIOs: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

Microsoft is set to open 30 holiday pop-up stores to showcase the new Surface tablet and Windows 8.

FORBES: Holiday Shopping Trends: Making A List And Checking In Twice