Without Windows...
* The acronym "BSOD" might stand for "Boy Scout Official Dentistry" merit badge, not "Blue Screen of Death."
* The three-finger salute would be what those Boy Scouts are doing while earning their BSODs, not Control-Alt-Delete.
* OLE would have remained what Spaniards cry at bullfights, not Object Linking and Embedding.
* "DLL" might have stood for "Dull Lesbian Librarians" instead of "Dynamic Link Library."