Who invented the Windows operating system?

(2) On October 19, 2009 at 2:54 am Idisjunction [804] said:

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(1) On August 16, 2008 at 12:47 pm JimPrevo [0] said:

As I recall, the MAC was introduced to the world at the 1984 Olympics with that infamous commercial with a theme from the book "1984".

Also as I recall, Xerox actually developed the first contemporary GUI in their STAR and Alto workstations in the late 1970s.

Apple leveraged this work to create a GUI based predecessor to the MAC which was called the LISA (as in Mona Lisa). I recall seeing one of those in use in 1983 (128KB of RAM was big back then)

"Windows" was much later. Microsoft was stuck in partnership with IBM on OS/2 during most of the 1980s and Windows was on a very low back-burner. I used Windows V2.0 on my NEC MultiSpeed laptop (18 pounds) in 1988. V2.0 was pretty much useless.

I believe Windows 3.0 came about around 1990 and Windows really became mainstream when V3.1 was released and fixed a bunch of problems that V3.0 had. I believe that was around 1991. Windows 3.11 aka Windows for Workgroups came out a couple of years later. Windows 95 (aka Chicago) came out in 1995, of course. That was another excellent leap in usability & stability.

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