Who invented the GUI, windows and object-oriented programming??

Question

I have deliberately used a small 'w' for windows in that I mean the presentation of objects, folders etc. in separate windows on a screen

Answer 1

hm... the first company that produces GUI and windows (but the name is not windows.) is Xerox company.. their researcher created the first complete personal computers in 1970s (with monitor, printer,mouse, keyboard and LAN) but they did not commercialize it because their directors were afraid that their photocopy machines would not make profit.. during that time.. others did not now what computers are.. then.. one day, they invited apple computers to visit them, and when steve jobs saw the technology, we was stunned.. then he created macintosh OS.. microsoft are copycats... the DOS.. is not created by microsoft.. but they modified a DOS-like OS bought from Seattle Computers which they bought for 50,000... just lucky to be inclined with IBM during those days... watch the triumph of the nerds movie.. however.. microsoft is smart and creative.. congratulations!!

Answer 2

Each of these is the work of MANY people from MANY companies because when they were first created information was more readily shared. Then some of the companies saw that they could make some money off of the "tools" and started copyrighting it. I can remember almost continuous conversations on Compuserve back in the late 70's and early 80's talking about "how would YOU design something to do ..."

Hmmmm.. I probably have some old printouts from those days still around... Hahahahahaahaaa!

Radio Shack had a Multi-tasking operating system back in the 70's much like OS2... but I think they called it something like OS9..and portions of it were written in a style similar to OOP..

I think my Amiga 1000 computer used GUI before windows was around (and it did not crash nearly as much as the first 3 or 4 versions of windows). But I also think the Amiga was created by a bunch of game making engineers that got dissatisfied with Atari and formed their own company (before Commodore bought out Amiga)... Then Commodore killed it with horrible marketing strategies.

OK, my memory of those days is hard to sort by dates so perhaps I'm a bit mixed up on some of it.. but you can be sure that whoever "owns" a copyright on any of those things is just the one that saw a money making opportunity and filed the proper paperwork.

Answer 3

GUI was invented by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Centre

Windows is a trade mark of Microsoft, so they "invented" windows

Dr. Alan Kay invetned the first full object-oriented programming language, Smalltalk

Answer 4

yes it was invented by Xerox originally and originally there were lots of different flavours running on PC's. I remember buying a pc by Radio Shack running a GUI in 1986 before Windows.