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Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 3.51, and was released to manufacturing on July 31, 1996, [1] and then to retail in August 24, 1996, with the Server versions released to retail in September 1996.
NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server; 528 IA-32, Alpha, MIPS: December 31, 2000 Windows NT 3.5: Daytona September 21, 1994 NT 3.5 Windows NT 3.5 Server; 807 IA-32, Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC: December 31, 2001 Windows NT 3.51: May 29, 1995 NT 3.51 Windows NT 3.51 Server; 1057 December 31, 2001 Windows NT 4.0: Shell Update Release July 29, 1996 NT 4.0
Windows NT 4.0 was the last major release to support Alpha, MIPS, or PowerPC, though development of Windows 2000 for Alpha continued until August 1999, when Compaq stopped support for Windows NT on that architecture; and then three days later Microsoft also canceled their AlphaNT program, [60] even though the Alpha NT 5 (Windows 2000) release ...
Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, [2] officially released to retail on February 17, 2000 for all versions, and on September 26, 2000 for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft.Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
The suite is officially compatible with Windows NT 3.51 SP5 through Windows Me. [a] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows NT 3.51 SP5 and Windows NT 4.0 RTM–SP2. Two Service Releases (SR-1 and SR-2) have been released for Office 97; SR-2 solves the year 2000 problem in Office 97. [4]
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For NT and NT-based operating systems, it also allows the user to pass preconfigured options to the kernel. The menu options are stored in boot.ini, which itself is located in the root of the same disk as NTLDR. Though NTLDR can boot DOS and non-NT versions of Windows, boot.ini cannot configure their boot options.