1973
Xerox PARC Alto
1980
Three Rivers Computer Corporation Perq
1981
Xerox PARC Star
1983
Apple Lisa (strongly influenced by Xerox PARC systems)
Visi Corp Visi On
1984
MIT Project X başladı (katılımcılar Sun, IBM, HP, and DEC)
Apple Macintosh
Digital Research GEM (Atari ST computers adıyla tanınır)
1985
Amiga Workbench 1.0
Windows 1.0
Geos (for Commodore 64 and Apple II)
1986
First commercial release of X for UNIX
1987
Color Macintosh
Windows 2.03
Acorn Arthur
1988
NeXT
Apple GS/OS
IBM OS/2 Version 1.10 Presentation Manager (Microsoft wrote much of this)
1990
Windows 3.0 (First successful Microsoft GUI)
Amiga Workbench 2
PC-GEOS
1992
Windows 3.1/3.11
IBM OS/2 Version 2.0 with Workplace Shell
Amiga Workbench 3
1993
Windows for Workgroups 3.11, NT 3.1/3.5
1994
XFree86, an Open Source implementation of X11R6, is released. (Linux gets a GUI)
QNX Photon microGUI
1995
Windows 95 / Microsoft Bob
BeOS
1996
Windows NT 4.0
OS/2 Warp 4 with Workplace Shell
1997
Apple Mac OS 8
1998
Windows 98
1999
RISC OS 4
2000
Windows 2000
2001
Mac OS X released
Windows XP
