Thursday, July 31, 2008

Windows NT


Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT was the first fully 32-bit version of Windows, whereas its consumer-oriented counterparts, Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x, were 16-bit/32-bit hybrids. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Home Server, and Windows Server 2008 are based upon the Windows NT system, althoug

Windows NT
Company/developer Microsoft
Source model Closed source / Shared source
Stable release Client:

Windows Vista SP1
NT 6.0.6001
(February 4, 2008)
Server:
Windows Server 2008
NT 6.0.6001
(February 27, 2008) [+/-]

Preview release Windows 7
Milestone 1
NT 6.1.6574.1
(April 20, 2008) [+/-]
Kernel type Hybrid kernel
Default user interface Graphical User Interface
License Microsoft EULA
Working state Current

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