Not so fast, Internet Explorer! We know that you have great things in the works for IE 9-- including Direct2D GPU acceleration, the 2D / vector graphics API that we first laid eyes on in Windows 7.

本文依据的时间线以基于 DOS 的 Windows 版本为主，因为 Windows NT 系基本上沿用的是 DOS 系 Windows 的界面设计。 前阵子看了少数派上的 Mac 设计史系列，想起自己曾经写过一些有关 Windows 界面元素的设计史，就萌生了对我以前收集的有关 Windows 设计的资料进行整理 ...

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