In Windows 3.0 you could change the background to display a pattern or bitmap image. The new Windows Paintbrush supported BMP and PCX files.

在Windows 3.0系统，你可以改变背景来显示一张图案或位图图像，新画笔支持BMP和PCX格式文件。

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Win + Home: Minimize all the non-active background Windows, keeping the window you're using in its current position. (Press win + Home again to restore the Windows to their original locations.)

Win + Home最小化所有非活动的背景窗口，但保留当前程序床的原始位置，再按一次恢复这些窗口到原始位置。

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None of this required cables (though, for Windows computers, you must first download and install a Mobile Me control panel that runs in the background).

这一切都不需要电线（不过，Windows电脑用户必须先下载和安装一个在后台运行的Mobile Me控制面板，然后再进行同步）。

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Or you can render a video in Windows in the background while checking on your social networks on Android.

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Like the new Windows 8 app, it runs in the background, delivering push notifications even when you're looking at something else.

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The blue square represents Windows (neutral, cool, in the background of everything like the sky in the XP homescreen.) The red square represents Office (active, constructive, hot like overheated brain activity.).

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