BeOS

Common Desktop Environment

GEOS/ GeoWorks

GNOME

Lisa Office System

Mac OS

NeXTSTEP/ OPENSTEP/ Rhapsody

OS/2

QNX

Windows

R5

CDE 1.0

GEOS for Commodore

GeoWorks

BreadBox Ensemble

2.0

1

7/7 3

System 1

System 3

System 4

System 7.5

9

X

X 10.2 Jaguar

X 10.3 Panther

X 10.4 Tiger

Rhapsody

1.30

2

Warp 3

Warp 4

6.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

3.1

NT 3.1

95

98

2000

XP

2000

1993

1986

1990

2002

2002

1983

1984

1984

1986

1987

1995

1999

2001

2002

2003

2005

1997

1990

1992

1994

1996

2001

1985

1987

1990

1992

1993

1995

1998

2000

2001

Desktop

Applications

Office

Notepad

Text editor

Calculator

Calendar

Clock

Address book

Multimedia

Media player

CD player

Volume level

Sound

Networking

Terminal

Phone dialer

Internet

Browser

Mail

Keyboard map

Settings

Settings menu

General

Appearance

Desktop themes

Display

Screensaver

Keyboard

Mouse

Time and date

International

Accessibility

Power management

System

Application manager

File manager

Running applications

Task manager

Help

Search

Trash can

Run

Utilities

Command prompt

Startup and shutdown

Login screen

Logout screen

Shutdown window

Installation