Balloon,+Screen,+Popup,+Tool+tips+etc.

Balloon, Screen, Popup, Tool tips etc.

Every single little text box that pops up over an icon that displays information about that icon (or program that it represents), no matter how much information is displayed, no matter what the box says, no matter what shape, size, or colour they are, is called a screen tip. It is just that somewhere along the way somebody got bored with all of the “screen” tips and started renaming them for lack of something to do.