NewWave (HP software)

NewWave was an object-oriented graphical desktop environment and office productivity tool for PCs running early versions of Windows (beginning with 2.0), developed by Hewlett-Packard and introduced c. 1989. It was promoted by the manufacturer until the release of Windows 95, at which time further development of the product ceased due to incompatibility with the new operating system. Because of alleged similarities to the Macintosh GUI, NewWave was the subject of an unsuccessful "look and feel'" lawsuit by Apple (see Apple v. Microsoft). The NewWave GUI (together with the contemporaneous NeXTSTEP GUI) introduced the shaded "3-D look and feel" that was later widely adopted.

Related Topics:
2.0 - Hewlett-Packard - Windows 95 - Apple - Apple v. Microsoft - NeXTSTEP

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