GUIdebook > GUIs > Windows

Home > GUIs > Windows

Currently the most popular GUI, created for Intel-based PCs.

Available since 1985. Developed by Microsoft .

1983 Windows 1.0 is announced

1985 Windows 1.0 (30 screenshots)

1987 Windows 2.0 (32 screenshots)

1990 Windows 3.0 (35 screenshots)

1992 Windows 3.1 (74 screenshots)

1993 Windows NT 3.1 (41 screenshots)

1994 Windows NT 3.5 (48 screenshots)

1995 Windows 95 (98 screenshots)

1996 Windows NT 4.0 (102 screenshots)

1998 Windows 98 (102 screenshots)

2000 Windows 2000 (103 screenshots)

Windows Millennium Edition (51 screenshots)

2001 Windows XP (108 screenshots)

2003 Windows Server 2003 (50 screenshots)

Windows Vista, the successor of Windows XP, is announced (under the code name Longhorn)

2007 Windows Vista (50 screenshots)

19 articles, starting with:

“Microsoft Windows” from Byte 1983

“Microsoft does Windows” from PC World 1984

“Drawing back the curtain on Windows shows Microsoft has a clear edge” from PC Magazine 1985

“Microsoft Windows” from 1985

“Microsoft Windows” from 1986

“Sorting out fact from fiction in the Apple-Microsoft lawsuit” from PC Magazine 1988

“A guide to GUIs” from Byte 1989

“Time for a new interface” from PC Magazine 1992

268
icons 33
sounds 2
tutorials 2
posters 2
quotes 8
trivia 8
taglines 386
splashes 12
links

Windows NT 3.1 Workstation

58 magazine ads, including:

One-page advertisement of Windows 1.0 Software Development Kit from Byte 9/86
An advertisement of Windows in between Windows 95 and 98

A joint advertisement of Toshiba T3100SX and Windows 3.0, published in Personal Computing 9/90
An advertisement of Windows Server 2003

3 other ads:

A slideshow from 1985’s preview disk

A short interactive demo of Windows 95

Four banners promoting the launch event of Windows 95

9 books, including:

“GUI bloopers”
“The GUI Guide”

“Visual interface design for Windows”
“The Cross-GUI Handbook”

Copyright © 2002-2006 Marcin Wichary, unless stated otherwise.