Proper grammar usage: Window's Updates or is it just Windows Updates?

[Nocturnal]

If I am referring to Windows Updates, should it be typed as Window's Updates or Windows Updates or even Window's updates?

 

[meltdown75]

Windows Updates

 

[mobobuff]

It's "Windows Updates" and in your last example you meant, "Windows' Updates".

Windows is the name of the product, "Updates" is the feature.

 

[Alone]

Windows Updates. The name is and always will be Windows, not Window.

 

[George P Burdell]

Windows Update
singular
it's being used as a proper noun here

 

[SoulAssassin]

Are you referring to the website or the updates themselves?

 

[Nocturnal]

Thanks. I've been using it that way for quite some time. I appreciate the help.

 

[Phoenix86]

Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

Nope. Ban.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Alone
Windows Updates. The name is and always will be Windows, not Window.

Exactly.

Do you call your OS Window or Windows?

 

[49erinnc]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Alone
Windows Updates. The name is and always will be Windows, not Window.

Exactly.

Do you call your OS Window or Windows?

With Vista, I find myself calling it all sorts of things.

 

[tfinch2]

Window's Updates == Updates that belong to Window

WRONG!

 

[FoBoT]

Microsoft Update

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

And it's possessive?

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Window's Updates == Updates that belong to Window

WRONG!

They're updates to Windows.

 

[torpid]

Isn't there only one "Windows Update" as in the name of the software that downloads updates to windows? Otherwise I would call them Windows patches or Windows Hot Fixes.

 

[Kelemvor]

The updates are FOR Windows, they don't BELONG TO Windows. So no apostrophe.

 

[gamepad]

Windows's Update.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: gamepad
Windows's Update.

damnit, you took my answer!

 

[MDE]

Windows Update

/thread

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

Nope. Ban.

are you sure? if we did it grammatically correct he would be right. it isn't, "this is the jones's house" it would be, "this is the jones' house."

i would say that it is possessive since windows is updating itself.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

The apostrophe indicates possessive, not plural, form. "Windows' updates" indicates that the updates belong to Windows.

The phrase "Windows updates" can be referring to either one version of or multiple versions of Windows and remains gramatically correct in either case.

Unless one is referring to the site's title, the word "updates" should not be capitalized, so the correct phrase to describe multiple updates for Windows would be "Windows updates".

ZV

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: amish

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

Nope. Ban.

are you sure? if we did it grammatically correct he would be right. it isn't, "this is the jones's house" it would be, "this is the jones' house."

i would say that it is possessive since windows is updating itself.

Windows does not own its updates. These are the type of updates associated with Windows and hence we describe them as Windows updates. In the same way, a goal for soccer is called a soccer goal, not a soccer's goal.

 

[manowar821]

God, you're all n00bs

It's: Windows's' updates's' LEARN UR ENGLRISH

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Windows' Updates.

Multiple windows versions, multiple updates.

The apostrophe indicates possessive, not plural, form. "Windows' updates" indicates that the updates belong to Windows.

The phrase "Windows updates" can be referring to either one version of or multiple versions of Windows and remains gramatically correct in either case.

Unless one is referring to the site's title, the word "updates" should not be capitalized, so the correct phrase to describe multiple updates for Windows would be "Windows updates".

ZV

I disagree on the capitalization of "updates". Since they are part of a company, ie. Microsoft, if they capitalize them then that's the way it stays, grammatically correct or not.

Windows Updates.

Mods, lock it up. This thread is over. I win.